"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Richard Sandiford wrote: > >> >> Well, maybe the 'volatile' have no sense, but some archs (including >> >> i386, of course :-)) and some drivers use it. Adding the 'volatile' >> >> will remove some compiler warnings. >> > >> > As will removing "volatile" from broken ports. >> >> There's nothing wrong with "volatile void *". > > So what's the volatile value you can get by dereferencing such a pointer? You can't dereference it, obviously, just like you can't deference a normal "void *". But you can assign it to any "volatile T *" without an explicit cast. I assumed that's what was happening in this case? Richard
