Re: unconstify equivalent for volatile

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: unconstify equivalent for volatile
Date: 2019-03-04 10:36:48
Message-ID: e5b87e21-1496-bfd0-5ec4-9b1133cbc58c@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2019-02-25 09:29, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2019-02-22 21:31, Andres Freund wrote:
>> On 2019-02-22 12:38:35 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> On 2019-02-19 18:02, Andres Freund wrote:
>>>> But even if we were to decide we'd want to keep a volatile in SetLatch()
>>>> - which I think really would only serve to hide bugs - that'd not mean
>>>> it's a good idea to keep it on all the other functions in latch.c.
>
>> Right. But we should ever look/write into the contents of a latch
>> outside of latch.c, so I don't think that'd really be a problem, even if
>> we relied on volatiles.
>
> So how about this patch?

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