> Assigning an ordinary pointer to a pointer to a `noalias' object is a license for the compiler to undertake aggressive optimizations that are completely legal

> Assigning an ordinary pointer to a pointer to a `noalias' object is a license for the compiler to undertake aggressive optimizations that are completely legal by the committee's rules, but make hash of apparently safe programs I can only imagine what he thought about aggressively optimizing C-family compilers in his later years.