Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: some objections to 'noalias'
Message-ID: <6971@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 7 Jan 88 02:50:09 GMT
References: <485@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <1453@cuuxb.ATT.COM> <492@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <1469@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
Lines: 8

In article <1469@cuuxb.ATT.COM> mmengel@cuuxb.UUCP (Marc W. Mengel) writes:

>	Aliasing is not a problem in C. Ensuring that it is not a problem is
>	expensive.  People want to be able to turn off this expensive behavior
>	in specific cases where they know that it won't make a difference.

(This is such a beautiful statement of what "noalias" is all about that
I wanted to make sure everyone noticed it.  Please excuse the reposting.)