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From: TLIMONCE%DREW.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: You win.  (I now dis-like NOALIAS)
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Date: 24 Dec 87 06:15:30 GMT
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After reading all the recent posts about noalias I have come to the following
conclusions:
        - Leave it out.  It's not worth all this debating.
        - Leave it out of the standard.  If someone wants to write an
optimizer that would require it they will add it and it will create
some prior art for the next revision.
(actually, I like that person's idea about computing where it is needed
and think that it can be done)

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Why would someone want to include a \000 in the middle of a string?
I've seen a pull-down menu routine (was it in DDJ?) that had something
like:
         foo(3,"MenuItem1\000MenuItem2\000MenuItem3");
                  (or maybe that was in a structure?)

This allowed the progammer to specify the text for each item in the menu easily.
This has advantages over variable # of parameters (a bit easier to code).
I prefer:
         foo("Thing1\000Thing2\000Thing3\000\000");
It's more like an empty-string terminated list of strings (a "null terminated
null terminated string" perhaps?)

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Someone made a comment about a typo of mine.  Please, I do most of my net-ing
late at night and proofing is difficult at 2AM.  I suggest something
better than const, register and noalias:
          "violet:" -- "I was blue when I wrote this code."
(sorry)
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