Subject: Re: restrict
From: "Lassi A. Tuura" <[email-masked]>
To: Martin Gainty <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 22:08:55 +0200

> I have never seen restrict keyword..any ideas?

It was introduced in C99, and in a few compilers before that.  Roughly
speaking it means the memory pointed to by the restrict pointer is not
aliased by anything else visible in that scope, so the compiler is free
to optimise the code assuming no other pointer write writes over memory.

Take for example:
  int foo (int *restrict a, int *restrict b)
  { a[1] = b[1]; return b[0] + a[1]; }

The compiler can assume the assignment to a[1] will not have modified b[0].

Hope this helps,
//lat
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