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From: Joseph Myers <josmyers@redhat.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, uecker@tugraz.at, gcc@gcc.gnu.org,
	 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
	linux-man@vger.kernel.org,  xry111@xry111.site, jakub@redhat.com,
	lh_mouse@126.com,  jwakely.gcc@gmail.com,
	Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com, sam@gentoo.org,
	 ben.boeckel@kitware.com, heiko.eissfeldt@siemens.com,
	dmalcolm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: n3294 - The restrict function attribute as a replacement of the restrict qualifier
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 20:30:33 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48bf010-43ec-6761-13b1-55864296a90@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dcmpclh7v3m263hsynbpjvroi4ldbiv6ig4tuug6ieyovcgv7n@vxojhbpm4bst>

On Fri, 26 Jul 2024, Alejandro Colomar via Gcc wrote:

> I don't see why it should not apply to void*.  memcpy(3) should get this
> attribute:
> 
> 	[[alx::restrict(1)]]
> 	[[alx::restrict(2)]]
> 	void *memcpy(void *dst, const void *src, size_t n);

That would disallow copying between disjoint subarrays within the same 
toplevel object (and there's no way to specify an array size for void *), 
which hardly seems right.

> BTW, the author of n2529 didn't follow up, right?  I'd like that in, so
> I'll prepare something after n2906 is merged.  Martin, would you mind
> pinging me about it?

See reflector message SC22WG14.18575, 17 Nov 2020 (the former convenor 
replying when I asked about just that paper).  As far as I know the author 
has not yet provided an updated version / asked for it to be added to a 
meeting agenda.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
josmyers@redhat.com


  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-26 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20240705130249.14116-2-alx@kernel.org>
     [not found] ` <38982a470643f766747b0ca06b27ca859a87b101.camel@xry111.site>
2024-07-05 14:37   ` [PATCH v1] Remove 'restrict' from 'nptr' in strtol(3)-like functions Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-05 15:02     ` Martin Uecker
2024-07-05 15:23       ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-05 15:34         ` Martin Uecker
2024-07-05 15:53           ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-05 16:01             ` Xi Ruoyao
2024-07-05 16:17               ` Xi Ruoyao
2024-07-05 16:24               ` Jonathan Wakely
2024-07-05 16:30                 ` Martin Uecker
2024-07-05 19:28                   ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-05 19:38                     ` Jonathan Wakely
2024-07-05 19:47                       ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-05 19:52                         ` Jonathan Wakely
2024-07-05 20:11                           ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-05 20:15                           ` Emanuele Torre
2024-07-05 20:31                             ` Ben Boeckel
2024-07-05 20:25                     ` Martin Uecker
2024-07-05 20:28                       ` Jonathan Wakely
2024-07-05 20:41                         ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-05 20:55                         ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-05 21:39                           ` Jonathan Wakely
2024-07-05 22:02                             ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-05 22:04                               ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-06  2:24                               ` Xi Ruoyao
2024-07-06  2:39                                 ` Xi Ruoyao
2024-07-06  5:51                                   ` [[gnu::null_terminated_string_arg(1)]] on strtol(1) (was: [PATCH v1] Remove 'restrict' from 'nptr' in strtol(3)-like) functions Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-06  6:10                                 ` [PATCH v1] Remove 'restrict' from 'nptr' in strtol(3)-like functions Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-06  6:11                                   ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-05 16:32                 ` Sam James
2024-07-05 16:02             ` Martin Uecker
2024-07-05 16:11             ` Jonathan Wakely
2024-07-05 16:21               ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2024-07-05 15:54         ` LIU Hao
2024-07-05 15:55         ` Xi Ruoyao
2024-07-05 16:32           ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-05 17:32             ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-05 19:41 ` [WG14] Request for document number; strtol restrictness Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-07 15:46   ` Daniel Plakosh
2024-07-09 19:00     ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-09 20:04       ` Daniel Plakosh
2024-07-07  1:58 ` WG14 paper for removing restrict from nptr in strtol(3) Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-07  7:15   ` Martin Uecker
2024-07-07 11:07     ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-07 12:21       ` Martin Uecker
2024-07-07 13:10         ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-07 10:42   ` Paul Eggert
2024-07-07 12:42     ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-07 17:30       ` Paul Eggert
2024-07-07 22:52         ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-09 12:09           ` Paul Eggert
2024-07-09 17:36             ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-08 14:30       ` David Malcolm
2024-07-08 15:01         ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-08 16:05           ` Martin Uecker
2024-07-08 20:17             ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-09  5:58               ` Martin Uecker
2024-07-09  9:26                 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-08 22:48           ` David Malcolm
2024-07-09  9:07             ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-09  9:18               ` Jakub Jelinek
2024-07-09 10:28                 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-09 11:28                   ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-09 22:42   ` n3294 - The restrict function attribute as a replacement of the restrict qualifier Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-26 16:24     ` Joseph Myers
2024-07-26 16:35       ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-07-26 19:53         ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-26 18:50       ` Paul Eggert
2024-07-26 20:11       ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-26 20:30         ` Joseph Myers [this message]
2024-07-26 21:14           ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-26 21:22             ` Joseph Myers
2024-07-26 21:49               ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-26 22:03                 ` Martin Uecker
2024-07-26 22:26                   ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-07-26 22:59                     ` Martin Uecker
2024-07-27  8:44                       ` Alejandro Colomar

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