bug 2645 and restrict

Nathan Sidwell nathan@codesourcery.com
Thu Apr 26 08:44:00 GMT 2001


Jason Merrill wrote:
> IMO, no.  "const" implies a property which reference types already have, so
> it's reasonable to ignore it. 
but volatile isn't, and that too is silently ignored. which is counter
to your point about restrict only applying to pointers.

	typedef int &ref_t;
	ref_t volatile thing;

though it does seem reasonable to reject restrict on non-pointers.

nathan

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