Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: noalias comments to X3J11
Message-ID: <1988Apr10.002425.22003@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <7753@alice.UUCP>, <28700027@urbsdc>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 88 00:24:25 GMT

> ... Too often is asynchronous communication neglected
> in favour of synchronous IPC.

With good reason, since it is much harder to use safely and correctly.
Note that the first thing most operating systems do is to turn the hardware's
asynchronous interrupts into some (at least semi-) synchronous form.
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"Noalias must go.  This is           |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
non-negotiable."  --DMR              | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry
