On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:02:14AM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: Blame whoever designed C that there is no sane way to give a variable an attribute like "will never change again after the first initalization thus keeping the value in a register beyond function calls and any other kind of memory barrier is ok". This inconsistence merily achieves a better optimization of the code; the set_* function is intended to hide this cute little standard violation away ... Ralf
