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From: minow@thundr.dec.com (Martin Minow THUNDR::MINOW ML3-5/U26 223-9922)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Ansi C -- no system-specific pre-#defines
Message-ID: <8712260015.AA01517@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 26 Dec 87 03:05:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In a recent posting, watmath!rbutterworth suggests that noalias could
be replaced by a compiler-specific _noalias keyword and a user writing
portable code should addd something like
  #if !defined(_XYZ_COMPILER)
  #   define _noalias /*nothing*/
  #endif

Unfortunately, the Ansi committee doesn't seem to allow vendor-specific
pre-defined variables.  I asked specifically for this in my comments
to the November '86 Draft Standard and was rejected.  The August '87
Draft (section 3.8.8) seems somewhat ambiguous in this matter, however.

Martin Minow
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