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>>>>> "BL" == Bill Leonard <bill@amber.ssd.hcsc.com> writes:
[...]
James Kanze:
>> There is a proposed extention to C which would do it, a sort of son of
>> noalias.  I don't know any of the details, but I'm sure that a question
>> in comp.std.c would reach people who did, or who could point you in the
>> right direction.

BL> I continue to think such extensions are a bad idea.  They basically force
BL> the compiler to trust the programmer, and historically that is not a
BL> reliable thing to do.
[...]

Note that James was not talking about `noalias', but about `restrict'.
I don't doubt restricted pointers can be misused or abused and hence
lead to trouble; so can many features of C and C++. I'm not sure I
totally with your view of history though: trusting the programmer is
often pragmatically essential.

Scientific computing in C++ could sure use the extra cycles...

	Daveed
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