PATCH to implement `restrict' in C

Michael Meissner meissner@cygnus.com
Wed Oct 21 13:51:00 GMT 1998


On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 09:16:14AM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> 
>   In message < k23e8jsb68.fsf@zero.aec.at >you write:
>   > There is one problem with that: once restrict is ported to g++ it will
>   > need an own option for it. -flang-c9x doesn't make sense for a C++ compiler
>   > (and a new C++ standard including it is unlikely to appear anytime soon)
>   > So an -frestrict is needed anyways, and it would be inconsistent to have
>   > it for g++, but not for gcc. So I propose to keep -frestrict, but to have
>   > -flang-c9x imply it.
> Actually I'd prefer "-lang-c9x", not "-flang-c9x".  Again, consistency with
> existing language variant options.

And what happens if I have a library named libang-c9x.a?  Then I can't link it
in.

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