On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Eric Botcazou <ebotca...@adacore.com> wrote: >> if T is a non-volatile composite type with volatile components, and O is an >> object of type T, are the optimizers allowed to remove the assignment "O := >> O"? > > Good question, that I'm not really qualified to answer. Any language lawyer?
Optimizers will test the TREE_THIS_VOLATILE flag on the expression codes performing the load/store. So if O is not TREE_THIS_VOLATILE they won't care. If frontends want something different in the above case they have to make sure to properly set TREE_THIS_VOLATILE. Richard. > -- > Eric Botcazou >