From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeffrey A Law To: Robert Lipe Cc: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" , egcs@egcs.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Should we create an attribute malloc for supposed alias benefits? Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:22:00 -0000 Message-id: <22850.936688821@upchuck.cygnus.com> References: <19990906170243.C11191@rjlhome.sco.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-09/msg00210.html 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 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeffrey A Law To: Robert Lipe Cc: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" , 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 Message-ID: <22850.936688821@upchuck.cygnus.com> References: <19990906170243.C11191@rjlhome.sco.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-09n/msg00210.html Message-ID: <19990930180200.cnH0E3ideNSDI-QRd-GWgwW1K4eS7Oyjf5KTFFfQvDA@z> 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