Re: [ft] question regarding use of volatile in Freetype

[Detlef Würkner]

address@hidden (JULIAN GARDNER) wrote:

> I did a grep and found volatiles used in numerous places, can someone
> please explain why they are being used, as i understand and have used in
> the past ..... years freetype should not need volatiles, there are no
> interrupt calls and no way in which data should be changed without a call
> into the freetype engine?

IIRC using setjmp() and longjmp() with some versions of gcc requires
declaring some variables as "volatile" or it may clobber them.

Ciao, Detlef
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