Re: CVS commit: src/sys/sys

["Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:53:08 +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:

> Module Name:  src
> Committed By: martin
> Date:         Tue Feb 21 10:53:08 UTC 2012
> 
> Modified Files:
>       src/sys/sys: cdefs.h
> 
> Log Message:
> There are some places where C99 allows a restrict modifier (and posix
> demands it), but C++ does not allow it. So add a C only version of
> __restrict, which expands to nothing if compiling C++.
> See http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49347 for a discussion.

That feels bogus.  What's wrong with with replacing [restrict] with
equivalent *restrict syntax that is also valid for C++?

-uwe