Re: Fwd: [PATCH 01/10] Add the __restrict__ keyword

[Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>]

On 07/08/14 21:02, Ramsay Jones wrote:
> On 07/08/14 04:04, Christopher Li wrote:
>>>
>> I don't see it cover the __restrict__ case as far as I can tell.
> 
> Yes, I didn't get that you were talking specifically about __restrict__,
> rather than any one of 'restrict', '__restrict' or '__restrict__'.
> 
>> Also, do you have run into the case that "__restrict__" was use in abstract
>> array? None of your grep example show usage in the array. Your patch seems
>> suggest that is possible.
> 
> They are very rare in the wild! :-D
> 
> The only examples I have come across for real are 'posix_spawn()' (see
> <spawn.h>) and 'regexec()' (<regex.h>).
> 

And once again I didn't get that you were talking specifically about
__restrict__! *blush* (I should learn to read. :-P ) Just for the
record, I don't know of any use of __restrict__ in an abstract array
declaration on _any_ platform.

ATB,
Ramsay Jones