------- Comment #6 from dorit at il dot ibm dot com 2006-11-05 15:48 ------- (In reply to comment #5) > This was something that slipped in, IIRC. I was of Ian's viewpoint, that > may_alias_p should handle it, and it shouldn't be special to data-references.
yes, it was originally added as a temporary hack until alias analysis did something with restrict -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29145
