Re: core.intrinsics

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 14 October 2016 at 13:07:10 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
On Friday, 14 October 2016 at 12:55:17 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:

- this pointer is aligned to N bytes
- this pointer doesn't alias with this pointer

Do you mean these as "just a hint, should not generate invalid 
code if not true" or as "a certainty, allowed to generate 
invalid code if not true" ?

For alignment/aliasing restrictions to be really beneficial, you 
have to be able to assume they hold, though. — David