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Re: [PATCH] noclobber & noescape annotations for function arguments

Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:

On 16 April 2010 11:26, Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> wrote: 

- const = only read
- output = only (always?) written, *T is dead on entry

Isn't this similar to the intent() attribute in Fortran?

Shhh ! They're thinking they're coming up with something really revolutionary.

Next time you know they'll propose to annotate variables that are pointed to with the __target attribute ...

After all, it will help alias analysis enormously :-)

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