Message-Id: <199905231639.QAA24998@out5.ibm.net> From: "Mark E." To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 12:40:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: New Keyword for C References: <5f1757c5 DOT 247862df AT aol DOT com> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com > > On Sat, 22 May 1999 Kbwms AT aol DOT com wrote: > > > I understand from CUJ that a new keyword in C is in the works - > > restrict. An article in their July issue (to be published in June) > > has a description. > > No. But perhaps somebody on djgpp-workers knows. > gcc 2.95 will support it. The intent of the restrict qualifier is to aid in optimization. Pointers with the 'restrict' qualifier cannot point to the same object. Here's a page that talks about restrict: http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/restrict.html BTW, you can pick up a copy of the latest available draft at: www.c9x.org --- Mark Elbrecht, snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com http://snowball.frogspace.net/