about qualifier "restrict"

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C99标准引入了新的限定符restrict，用于指明在一个作用域内，通过某个指针访问的数据不会通过其他指针进行访问。这有助于编译器进行优化，并确保数据的一致性和不变性。与const不同，restrict确保数据不能通过其他指针改变。

about qualifier "restrict":

One of the new features in the recently approved C standard C99, is the restrict pointer qualifier. This qualifier can be applied to a data pointer to indicate that, during the scope of that pointer declaration, all data accessed through it will be accessed only through that pointer but not through any other pointer. The 'restrict' keyword thus enables the compiler to perform certain optimizations based on the premise that a given object cannot be changed through another pointer. Now you're probably asking yourself, "doesn't const already guarantee that?" No, it doesn't. The qualifier const ensures that a variable cannot be changed through a particular pointer. However, it's still possible to change the variable through a different pointer. For example:

void f (const int* pci, int *pi ) // is *pci immutable?
    {
      (*pi)+=1; // not necessarily: n is incremented by 1
       *pi = (*pci) + 2; // n is incremented by 2
    }
    int n;
    f( &n, &n);

pci和pi指向的都是n，虽然pci被const修饰，但pci指向的内容却在函数中被改变了，当用restrict修饰符之后 void f ( const int * restrict pci , int * restrict pi )，问题解决了：一旦我们再有如：f ( &n , &n ) 的调用，编译器将给出错误提示，这是由于一个地址可以通过两个指针来访问

Note: The qualifier "restrict" isn't support by C89 or C++, If can't conpliar, please add "-std = C99"