Re: PATCH to implement `restrict' in C

[Andi Kleen <ak at muc dot de>]

In article <199810201606.JAA11689@smtp.earthlink.net>,
Mark Mitchell <mark@markmitchell.com> writes:
Andi> There is one problem with that: once restrict is ported to
Andi> g++ it will need an own option for it. -flang-c9x doesn't

> Nope.  There will be no `restrict' in g++; only `__restrict__'.  If at
> some point a new C++ standard introduces `restrict' in C++, we will
> have a name for all the other new features introduced by that standard,
> like -flang-cxx2005.  We can use `__restrict__' since it is reserved
> for the implementation.

That will be incompatible with the EDG based compilers which have restrict.
And -frestrict looks a bit nicer than -Drestrict=__restrict__ in this case @)


-Andi