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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
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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