Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!linus!philabs!micomvax!ray
From: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: some objections to 'noalias'
Message-ID: <872@micomvax.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 20:20:31 GMT
References: <485@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <1453@cuuxb.ATT.COM> <9934@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
Organization: Philips Information Systems Ltd., St. Laurent - Que., Canada
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Keywords: pragmas, compiler hints

In article <9934@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>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.
>--                                       ^^^^^^

Chris!  This is VERY unlike you!

You reply to a VERY descriptive, VERY well written posting which clears up
MUCH of the confusion on the meaning/impact of the aliasing question, by a
nit-picking criticism of a point irrelevant to the central theme the poster
was expounding, and OF WHICH YOU ARE NOT EVEN SURE OF THE CORRECTNESS!!

I should, of course, have passed this (small) flame privately.  Forgive me,
but I wanted anyway to publicly thank Mark Wendel for his posting.

It was clear and very informative.  Bravo!

Ray Dunn.   ..philabs!micomvax!ray