Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:56:22 +0200 | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Use __attribute__((malloc)) for gcc 3.2 |
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:29:00PM +0200, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> > Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 03:05:41 -0700 > > On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 04:01:13PM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > Does this matter when the kernel is compiled with -fno-strict-aliasing? > > Yes. The malloc attribute uses REG_NOALIAS, not alias sets. > > Great, I'm all for Andi's patch in that case.
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.
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