James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >typeof(arg1)
> > >strchr(const char *, char)
> > >
> > >or something similar that would carry the actual input over to the return
> > >value.
> >
> >
> > It would soon give you C++ type overloading. Might not be bad, but you
> > know where to find C++ :-)
>
> A good subset of the functionality (which I agree is a bit troublesome
> in that generic formulation) would be to allow storage qualifiers
> alone (not full types) to leak through functions. Something like:
>
> #pragma storage_return strchr(1)
> char *strchr(const char *, int);
>
> That would mean "the strchr function takes a pointer to character
> argument, it does not modify the storage pointed to, and the value it
> returns has the same storage qualifiers as the first argument."
If the #pragma only affects the storage attributes (as I intended with
my proposal), I believe the #pragma is a good idea. I believe that this
coild even be made an extension of Sun Studio to help the development
of clean code.
Jörg
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