On Jul 21, 2004, Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Making what the pointer points to volatile: > volatile int * p; Sorry, this is what I meant. Although making the pointer volatile would actually force the memory location holding the pointer to be loaded, it wouldn't force the memory location it points to to remain. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}