Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It might be worth asking the compiler folks to give us an __attribute__ for > > that - even if they don't do anything with it immediately. So we might have > > something like: > > > > void free(const volatile void *ptr) __attribute__((free(1))); > > Yeah, that sounds sane. https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=94527 > Even if it wasn't initially used for anything it wouldn't hurt, and maybe > some day it would improve warnings (and allow the compiler to do the dead > store elimination that started this whole long set of threads in the first > place..) With regard to this, I've got back "not sure what Linus was talking about WRT DSE, if he's got examples he could pass along, they'd be appreciated" David
