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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: (So-Called) ANSI C
Message-ID: <6917@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 5 Jan 88 22:59:40 GMT
References: <4668@pyr.gatech.EDU> <3873@uw-june.UUCP> <6896@brl-smoke.ARPA> <453@m10ux.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <453@m10ux.UUCP> mnc@m10ux.UUCP (Michael Condict) writes:
>Isn't the committee aware that each new reserved word may invalidate a
>substantial number of existing C programs that previously used that word
>as a variable?

Of course they are.  Tell you what: everybody grep for the identifier
"noalias" in your pre-existing C source code and mail me a count of
the number of occurrences, if greater than 0.  I'll post a summary,
if there are any such occurrences reported.  (Obviously I doubt that
this particular keyword is used in a non-negligible amount of existing
code.)