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by tropo
2961 days ago
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Trouble is, C was that language. Lots of people came to depend on this. The world needs a language with this ability. The replacement is often "gcc with inline assembly" or "gcc with lots of __attribute__ extensions such as __may_alias__" or "gcc with optimizations disabled". The need doesn't go away, despite the wishes of a language committee now dominated by compiler suppliers. From day 1, long before the language was standardized and even before the original (not ANSI) book was published, C was being used with aliasing. It was, after all, developed to support the creation of Unics (before that became UNIX). |
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