It was thus said that the Great Chuck Guzis once stated: > On 04/30/2016 02:07 PM, Mouse wrote: > > > Reading this really gives me the impression that it's time to fork > > C. There seems to me to be a need for two different languages, which > > I might slightly inaccurately call the one C used to be and the one > > it has become (and is becoming). > > > I vividly recall back in the 80s trying to take what we learned about > aggressive optimization of Fortran (or FORTRAN, take your pick) and > apply it to C. One of the tougher nuts was the issue of pointers. > While pointers are typed in C (including void), it's very difficult for > an automatic optimizer to figure out exactly what's being pointed to, > particularly when a pointer is passed as arguments or re-used.
I believe that's what the C99 keyword "restrict" is meant to address. -spc
