On Jun 16, 2006, at 5:54 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
For the bootstrapping problem I mentioned earlier, they added volatile to variables in the scope but it did not change anything.
For the problem I am thinking of, volatile should go a long way in working around the compiler bug, assuming no other bugs in volatile oh course. Certainly recently (4.0.1), we've seen bugs in volatile, but in top of tree, the offenders I knew about had all been fixed.
