On 09/01/2016 09:04 AM, Martin Sebor wrote:
Understood. I think a write-only attribute or type qualifier would
make sense. Until/unless it's implemented I would recommend to work
around its absence by hiding access to the registers behind a read-
only and write-only functional API.
As you noted earlier Martin, if we bake it into the typesystem, then you
get the desired warnings when you mix-n-match types. For that reason I
see a type qualifier is superior to an attribute.
IIRC the national labs that were looking at the alignment attribute
essentially came to the same conclusion -- bake it into the core of the
typesystem and rely on the typesystem to ensure you don't lose the data.
Jeff
