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Feedback on my MacTech article

Last updated: February 24, 1997


Bill Karsh writes:

Fabrizio:

Read your MacTech article with interest, good job...

Your EventLoop() function contains the line:

while(gDhrystoneDone == false) ;

It seems to me that a truly savvy optimizing compiler ought to notice that, because no subroutine calls are made from the body of this loop, gDhrystoneDone is a constant, and the loop can be removed entirely. I have never seen a compiler do that for globals, but strictly speaking, I believe compilers should do the removal.

I contend that one should be required to protect against removal for threaded code by declaring gDhrystoneDone volatile. What do you think?

Good point!

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