Re: new module for temporary files in temporary directories

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Linus Torvalds has deprecated the use of 'volatile' in data
> structures for optimization barriers (which is the use that started
> this thread), and prefers the use of primitives like barrier()
> instead.

Sure, I agree that it's easier to write wrong code with 'volatile'
than when using 'barrier()'. However, I don't know how to write
barrier() portably, i.e. in a way that would work with compilers other
than gcc and icc. Therefore I'm using 'volatile' as the next best
solution.

Bruno