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Date:      Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:35:58 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        FreeBSD-Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   What does __restrict do?
Message-ID:  <4029329E.1070406@potentialtech.com>

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In various places in the source code, for example, in the code for printf():

printf(char const * __restrict fmt, ...)

I understand everything except __restrict.  What does that mean/do?  Is it
a FreeBSDism?  (I can't find anything about it in any C docs)

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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