Re: CVS commit: src/sbin/fsck

[Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Christos Zoulas wrote:

> 
> Module Name:  src
> Committed By: christos
> Date:         Wed Dec 13 16:08:26 UTC 2006
> 
> Modified Files:
> 
>       src/sbin/fsck: fsck.c
> 
> Log Message:
> 
> Sprinkle volatile, instead of using the (void)&foo; which does not work on
> gcc 4.

Doesn't "volatile" cause the compiler to constantly load/store
those variables to the stack all the time instead of just keeping
them in registers if it can?  In other words, we now take a
performance hit just to shut up some gcc warnings?

Simon.