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Re: [PATCH] add alloc_size attribute

From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
To: Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
Cc: Dirk Mueller <dmueller at suse dot de>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Marcus Meissner <meissner at suse dot de>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 11:24:24 -0400
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add alloc_size attribute
References: <200704250131.03914.dmueller@suse.de> <84fc9c000704250126y40e68d78n8d4333d6de0c4fee@mail.gmail.com> <200705091515.47794.dmueller@suse.de> <20070509143207.GS355@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <84fc9c000705090740lf4acbfcp3076057157081674@mail.gmail.com>
Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 04:40:03PM +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
> >Good idea, I just wonder if it wouldn't be better to extend the malloc
> >attribute for this instead (i.e. it could have no arguments as it
> >does now, or one or two as your alloc_size argument does).
> 
> I think we should not overload the malloc attribute, as we would be
> unable to handle realloc in this case.

Ah, ok.  glibc uses malloc attribute even fore realloc, must have missed
Joseph's change.

	Jakub

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- Re: [PATCH] add alloc_size attribute
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