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From: walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Noalias trivia question
Message-ID: <628@garth.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 88 18:55:08 GMT
References: <56@lakart.UUCP> <1164@maccs.UUCP> <5995@utcsri.UUCP>
Reply-To: walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays)
Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA
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In article <5995@utcsri.UUCP> norvell@utcsri.UUCP (Theodore Stevens Norvell) writes:
>[Noalias] would have broken no existing code (except
>that which used the word "noalias" as an identifier); unlike the
>idea of using pragma it would have been portable.  I hope that
>sensible vendors will agree on a semi-standard pragma for it.

How about the noalias supporters on the committee proposing a pragma here
on the net?  Or simply announcing what they're going to do?  Users can
only be hurt if we all go off in dozens of incompatible directions.
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