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From: throopw@xyzzy.UUCP (Wayne A. Throop)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Noalias trivia question
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Date: 5 May 88 20:53:02 GMT
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> gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
> we have now left the optimizers without a handle for
> performing the optimizations they sought in standard-conforming C.

Well, granted, no keyword handle, but I don't see why the optimizer
freeks can't use

        sometype *var;
        #pragma noalias *var
or
        #pragma noalias var        

to do the same thing the keyword was for, but without everybody having
to worry about it until they had built up "existing practice" with the
idea.

--
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Wayne Throop      <the-known-world>!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!throopw