On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Niko Matsakis <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:15:47PM +0000, Bill Myers wrote:
> > BTW, how about keeping it, and calling it "&volatile" instead of
> > "&const", since that's what C uses to name something that can be
> > changed outside the program's control?
>
> That's the best proposed name I've seen. One problem might be that it
> has a known meaning to C programmers which is distinct (but
> overlapping) from the meaning in Rust...
>
>
>
> Niko
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LLVM also uses the term `volatile` with the same meaning as C, and I expect
we will need to expose it if only to make it possible to write non-useless
#[bench] tests.
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