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- From: larry.jones@sdrc.com (Larry Jones)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: noalias in C9X?
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 15:50:38 GMT
- Organization: SDRC Engineering Services
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- References: <4cfp2k$4gt@umbc9.umbc.edu>
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- Originator: scjones@thor
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- In article <4cfp2k$4gt@umbc9.umbc.edu>, schlein@umbc.edu (Jonas J. Schlein) writes:
- > In question 11.28 the 'noalias' qualifier was mentioned as being introduced
- > too late to make it into the standard. Also difficulty in giving it well
- > defined behavior stood as an obstacle.
- >
- > My question is whether or not this, or something similar will be in
- > a future standard?
-
- Yes -- restricted pointers provide most of the advantages of noalias
- while being much easier to define. There are papers available from
- http://www.dmk.com/~dmk/index.html.
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