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Re: Yet another function attribute?
> On Aug 20, 1999, Jan Hubicka <hubicka@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:
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> > Do you think it worth the implementation? Any suggestion for name of the
> > atribute? (readonly comes into mind :)
>
> stateless? idempotent?
Interesting ideas. Here is another one:
While implementing it (I am just doing last checks for first part of
patch to handle such functions and detect them automatically)
I found that it match closely "side_effects" attribute in gcc.
So maybe "noside_effects" can be good name. But it does not represent
the fact, that function also must be deterministics, so possibly
someone will tend to add "noside_effects" to functions like inport,
where it is wrong.
Other is "readmemoryonly" attribute, but rather long name.
(BTW it find roughly 300 such functions in gcc sources (only static
ones are checked) and saves 8% of size in XaoS binarry)
Honza
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