On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 01:25:31PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > glibc has a preprocessor macro called internal_function which switches > to a different calling convention on certain targets (i386 uses stdcall > and regparams). For non-K&R function definitions, the compiler enforces > that both the prototype declaration and the definition match. > > When someone writes a patch on a different architecture than i386 and > forgets to specify internal_function on both prototype and definition, > the build will pass, even though i386 will not compile. > > Is there a way to use a certain harmless attribute to detect this > mismatch even on architectures where internal_function has no effect? Maybe aligned(1) will do what you want? Segher
