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saagarjha on March 14, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Is SQLite Coded in C? (2017)

> With a boatload of associated semantics, quite a bunch bein in practice compiler-dependent (looking at you, MSVC volatile).

Which is not part of C. Your argument that "C is complicated" doesn't work if you cite an egregious misuse of nonstandard extensions.

3chelon on March 19, 2018 [–]

Forgive my ignorance here, I'm genuinely intrigued: what's so special about MSVC's volatile as opposed to the regular volatile keyword?

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