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

Anton Blanchard (anton@samba.org)
Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:51:41 +1000


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).

Anton
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