* Ian Lance Taylor: > Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Is there a type which is basically an (unsigned) char, but with the >> additional feature that a pointer derived from it wouldn't alias with >> basically anything? >> >> This type would be handy for optimizing marshaling code. > > There is no such type. However, use of the restrict qualifier should > achieve a similar effect. It turns out that I can't get GCC to eliminate redundant bounds checks, no matter what the type is. I guess I have to do this in a library after all, using template metaprogramming.
