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authorQuincey Koziol <koziol@hdfgroup.org>2010-05-13 23:06:45 (GMT)
committerQuincey Koziol <koziol@hdfgroup.org>2010-05-13 23:06:45 (GMT)
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[svn-r18800] Description:
Added note about use of volatile for variables. Added blurb to release notes about fixing strict-aliasing problems. Tested on: None - trivial change to comment.
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@@ -279,6 +279,9 @@ precision (detected_t *d)
* absence of implicit mantissa bit, and exponent bias and
* initializes a detected_t structure with those properties.
*
+ * Note: 'volatile' is used for the variables below to prevent the
+ * compiler from optimizing them away.
+ *
* Return: void
*
* Programmer: Robb Matzke