Re: Warnings/errors related to possibly clobbered variables

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Why not declare the offending variables 'volatile' and forget about
> all this stuff?

When this topic last came up, I vaguely recall Stefan saying that we shouldn't 
declare local variables 'volatile' merely to work around GCC bugs, and that we 
should get GCC fixed instead.  I filed a bug report, but the bug has not been 
fixed yet; see:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48968