> I like Ken's comment in A New C Compiler: > > Volatile seems to have no meaning, so it is hard to tell if ignoring > it is a departure from the standard. Const only confuses library > interfaces with the hope of catching some rare errors.
Indeed. But does the keyword do anything in the current compilers? It doesn't seem like the keyword gets ignored. Several [.]VOLATILE constants and a command in 8c/sgen.c:370. bc
