This 1998 note by Dennis Ritchie from comp.lang.c (and also here ) is very current since the concept of noalias has definitely crept back into the standard. I have reproduced it verbatim, but lightly formatted for readability. For further reading
Torvalds on aliasing
See also PLOS article, pointer alias in C and remarks on the purpose of C. From: LKML From Linus Torvalds <> Date Tue, 5 Jun 2018 10:30:21 -0700 Subject Re: [GIT PULL] Device properties framework update for v4.18-rc1 On Mon, Jun