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From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Robert Lipe <robertlipe@usa.net>
Cc: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Should we create an attribute malloc for supposed alias benefits?
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22850.936688821@upchuck.cygnus.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990930180200.cnH0E3ideNSDI-QRd-GWgwW1K4eS7Oyjf5KTFFfQvDA@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990906170243.C11191@rjlhome.sco.com>

  In message < 19990906170243.C11191@rjlhome.sco.com >you write:
  > Instead of adding more attributes, isn't this the very type of
  > functionality what C9X calls "restrict"?
I do not believe they are identical, but I'd have to go back and read the
various "restrict" threads to be sure.

Mark as the resident expert, can "restrict" be used to tell the aliasing code
that the return value from certain functions can never alias anything else
in the program?

jeff

  reply	other threads:[~1999-09-30 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-09-06 12:40 Kaveh R. Ghazi
1999-09-06 14:36 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-06 15:03   ` Robert Lipe
1999-09-07  0:22     ` Jeffrey A Law [this message]
1999-09-07  9:05       ` Should we create an attribute malloc for supposed aliasbenefits? Mark Mitchell
1999-09-30 18:02         ` Mark Mitchell
1999-09-07 17:09       ` Mark Mitchell
1999-09-30 18:02         ` Mark Mitchell
1999-09-30 18:02       ` Should we create an attribute malloc for supposed alias benefits? Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02     ` Robert Lipe
1999-09-30 18:02   ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Kaveh R. Ghazi
1999-09-08 13:27 Kaveh R. Ghazi
1999-09-08 13:44 ` Mark Mitchell
1999-09-30 18:02   ` Mark Mitchell
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Kaveh R. Ghazi

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