Re: [RFC] LKMM: Add volatile_if()

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On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 10:20 AM Segher Boessenkool
<segher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 06:13:00PM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 at 17:33, Segher Boessenkool
> > <segher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > An alternative design would be to use a statement attribute to only
> > > > enforce (C) ("__attribute__((mustcontrol))" ?).
> > >
> > > Statement attributes only exist for empty statements.  It is unclear how
> > > (and if!) we could support it for general statements.
> >
> > Statement attributes can apply to anything -- Clang has had them apply
> > to non-empty statements for a while.
>
> First off, it is not GCC's problem if LLVM decides to use a GCC
> extension in some non-compatible way.

Reminds me of
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whu19Du_rZ-zBtGsXAB-Qo7NtoJjQjd-Sa9OB5u1Cq_Zw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers



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