Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ll-xn!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!uw-june!pardo From: pardo@uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: [Ir]reducible (WAS: `noalias' vs `register') Summary: pragmas Message-ID: <3855@uw-june.UUCP> Date: 17 Dec 87 20:13:38 GMT References: <6829@brl-smoke.ARPA> <9753@mimsy.UUCP> <6830@brl-smoke.ARPA> <6845@brl-smoke.ARPA> <475@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> Reply-To: pardo@uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel) Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle Lines: 7 Keywords: Instead of worrying about keyword additons to the language, register, noregister, reducible, irreducible, etc., how about adding a "pragma" which looks like a procedure call. Making the number of arguments fixed would allow older compilers to #define them away. This seems more sensible to me. Am I overlooking some obvious problem? ;-D on (My bug has a compiler in it!) Pardo