From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use __attribute__((malloc)) for gcc 3.2
Date: 30 Sep 2002 02:04:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ptuw5onh.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020929160113.K5659@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 05:27:31PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > gcc 3.2 has an __attribute__((malloc)) function attribute. It tells gcc
> > that a function returns newly allocated memory and that the return pointer
> > cannot alias with any other pointer in the parent function. This often
> > allows gcc to generate better code because the optimizer doesn't need take
> > pointer aliasing in account.
>
> Does this matter when the kernel is compiled with -fno-strict-aliasing?
I don't know. But it's certainly worth trying, isn't it ? Giving the
compiler more information can't be a bad thing.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-30 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-29 15:27 [PATCH] Use __attribute__((malloc)) for gcc 3.2 Andi Kleen
2002-09-29 16:24 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-09-29 17:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-30 0:11 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-30 0:29 ` Andi Kleen
2002-09-29 20:01 ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-09-30 0:04 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2002-10-07 10:05 ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-07 10:29 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-07 10:56 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-07 11:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-10-07 11:45 ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-07 12:27 ` Andi Kleen
2002-09-29 23:51 ` Anton Blanchard
2002-09-30 0:31 ` Andi Kleen
2002-09-30 1:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-10-02 13:46 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] <20020929152731.GA10631@averell.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <20020929182643.C8564@infradead.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-09-29 19:09 ` Andi Kleen
2002-09-29 20:20 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-09-30 0:21 ` David S. Miller
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