Re: volatile

[Stephen Fisher <steve () stephen-fisher com>]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 02:15:19PM +0000, Chris Maynard wrote:

> But then I went looking for other volatile's and found a number of 
> them:
>
> grep volatile epan/dissectors/packet-*.c | wc
>     184    1066   14209
>
> Do we really need any of these in Wireshark?

I just tried removing the one you mentioned and another random one and 
it still compiles, but I've often seen a compiler warning about a 
longjump because of our exception handling code (the TRY / CATCH stuff) 
clobbering variables requiring them to be declared as volatile.

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