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Date:      Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:41:26 +0100 (CET)
From:      Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Mike Barcroft <mike@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: __restrict__  vs __restrict ?
Message-ID:  <20040119143913.Y42652@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de>
In-Reply-To: <20040117171928.GB38009@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <40088E75.5080908@acm.org> <20040117015809.GJ9410@FreeBSD.org.ua> <4008B3F9.6010903@acm.org> <20040117171928.GB38009@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, David O'Brien wrote:

DO>On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:03:05PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
DO>> >No, we should be using the __restrict as coded.  But I wonder why
DO>> >we can't just use "restrict"...
DO>>
DO>> Because that would really mess up any user program that used
DO>> 'restrict' as a variable or function name.  I think the
DO>> current approach is the best.
DO>
DO>Such code isn't portable to C99, which is still a goal of ours.  I like
DO>RU's suggestion, because it is straight C[99] code and not an
DO>abstraction.  I'll do a 'make world' test and see if we'd have trouble
DO>with RU's form.

What about third party code that reads cdefs.h and is pre-c99? It's
perfectly ok to use restrict as a name there.

harti
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