Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: standards development process
Message-ID: <543@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 88 05:25:39 GMT
References: <10314@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1509@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM> <1510@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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Keywords: /* boo */

In article <1510@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM>, rns@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM (Rick Schubert) writes:
> When and if there is an ANSI C Standard that contains "noalias", feel
> free to write programs that do not contain the token "noalias".

I am certainly not a |noalias| wizard, but it strikes me that Rick
might be premature here; those who understand |noalias| are well
encouraged to correct me.

While I may be free to not use |noalias| myself, I am required
to interface with the library, most of whose routines have arguments
declared with some permutation of |const| and/or |noalias|.  Because
of this I think I think I have to have some nominal awareness of
what these keywords do; the violent flamage against |noalias| leads
me to believe that just pretending they are not there will get me
into trouble.

Anybody?

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