ICU-10439 add comment about why volatile is here

X-SVN-Rev: 34476

diff --git a/icu4c/source/i18n/decimfmt.cpp b/icu4c/source/i18n/decimfmt.cpp
index 4a0da8ed8bf25b92f05e9344ba393d033dadcab6..c9d8b0c43a685c4d5c774415402acda55270d33b 100644 (file)
--- a/icu4c/source/i18n/decimfmt.cpp
+++ b/icu4c/source/i18n/decimfmt.cpp
@@ -1078,6 +1078,7 @@ DecimalFormat::getFixedDecimal(const Formattable &number, UErrorCode &status) co
     }
 
     if (type == Formattable::kInt64) {
+        // "volatile" here is a workaround to avoid optimization issues.
         volatile double fdv = number.getDouble(status);
         // Note: conversion of int64_t -> double rounds with some compilers to
         //       values beyond what can be represented as a 64 bit int. Subsequent