use of memset and optimization

[Bill Sommerfeld]

> > I think a good case can be made that even a memset of an auto volatile
> > array can be optimized away if the compiler can prove through
> > interprocedural or intermodule analysis that the address of the array
> > never escapes.
> 
> "At sequence points, volatile objects are stable in the sense that
> previous evaluations are complete and subsequent evaluationts have not
> yet occurred."  I think that rules out this optimization.

Not if no other bit of code can get a pointer to the volatile object!

					- Bill