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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: [Ir]reducible (WAS: `noalias' vs `register')
Message-ID: <6865@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 18 Dec 87 22:19:29 GMT
References: <6829@brl-smoke.ARPA> <9753@mimsy.UUCP> <6830@brl-smoke.ARPA> <6845@brl-smoke.ARPA> <475@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <3855@uw-june.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3855@uw-june.UUCP> pardo@uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel) writes:
-Instead of worrying about keyword additons to the language, register,
-noregister, reducible, irreducible, etc., how about adding a "pragma"
-which looks like a procedure call.  Making the number of arguments
-fixed would allow older compilers to #define them away.

Apart from the X3J11 committee's natural reluctance to standardize
any pragmas, I don't understand just what it is that you are proposing.