[Gegl-developer] Question about the use of C99/gcc built-in math intrinsics within GEGL on gfloats

[Geert Jordaens]

Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've filed an enhancement request for G_GNUC_RESTRICT:
>
>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552098
>
> We should however not wait for this to be included in GLib. As GLib 2.18
> has just been released, it will take a while before 2.20 hits the road.
>
>
> Sven
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Introducing the qualifier restrict will have some more checks to be done 
by the programmer and enabling the *-fstrict-aliasing* flag and the 
warning *-Wstrict-aliasing *would be advisable.

A good article on the use of the restrict qualifier:

http://www.cellperformance.com/mike_acton/2006/05/demystifying_the_restrict_keyw.html
and
http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/cc_restrict.html