[LLVMdev] c const

Christopher Lamb christopher.lamb at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 10:42:31 PDT 2007


On Aug 16, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Chris Lattner wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Holger Schurig wrote:
>>> if the programmer is going to tell you that the memory pointed
>>> to by a pointer argument is never written.

If you use a const * __restrict pointer then you should get the  
benefit of this as the alias analysis will assume that the pointed to  
object is neither aliased nor written.

--
Christopher Lamb



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