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

Andi Kleen
2002-10-07T12:22:26Z

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:45:06PM +0200, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:56:22PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > I retested it on gcc 3.2 and it unfortunately doesn't make any difference
> > (resulting kernel is byte-for-byte identical). So it looks like with
> > current gcc it isn't worth the effort.
>
> *shrug* It's still good documentation of intent. And one of
> these days we might get around to writing some aliasing code
> that doesn't suck quite so much. ;-)

I'll resubmit the patch then.

Thanks for the feedback.

-Andi