On 10/6/06, Ricard Wanderlof <ricard.wanderlof@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Jinesh K J wrote: > In this case we only need to write this as: > > *( (volatile char *) 0); > > But unlike the value, the address is not volatile. It's not a variable. I'm not sure I agree. A 'volatile char *' means 'a pointer to something that is volatile'. However ...
Don't worry, I was talking about the address itself - when you say &(*( (volatile char *) 0)), you get a constant right? not a variable. We were talking about the same stuff here. Everything should be clear by now - I hope so !
> &(*( (volatile char *) 0)); > > will still have no side effect. Only the char is volatile, not the > address, right? So,
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