Re: [PATCH] Use __attribute__((malloc)) for gcc 3.2

Andi Kleen
2002-09-30T00:26:23Z

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:51:41AM +0200, Anton Blanchard wrote:
>
> Hi Andi,
>
> > Also added an noinline macro to wrap __attribute__((noinline)). That's
> > not used yet. It tells the compiler that it should never inline, which
> > may be useful to prevent some awful code generation for those misguided
> > folks who use -O3 (gcc often screws up the register allocation of a
> > function completely when bigger functions are inlined).
>
> Could you also add an always inline? It would be useful for functions
> like context_switch, where we require it to be inlined (otherwise it
> falls outside scheduling_functions_{start,end}_here and wchan handling
> fails).

Ok. gcc supports it with __attribute__((always_inline))

Suggestions for a name? alwaysinline would be a bit lengthy.

-Andi