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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: some objections to 'noalias'
Message-ID: <9934@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 87 08:52:37 GMT
References: <485@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <1453@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Lines: 8
Keywords: lines=106, pragmas, compiler hints

In article <1453@cuuxb.ATT.COM> mmengel@cuuxb.ATT.COM (Marc W. Mengel) writes:
>Fortran uses copy-in copy-out address passing....

Some FORTRAN compilers may indeed use copy-in/copy-out (I believe this
is usually called `value-result'), but I think it is not mandated.
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