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Re: [PATCH v2] Implement no_sanitize function attribute


On 05/31/2017 01:51 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 01:46:00PM +0200, Richard Biener wrote:
>> Just wanting to add that "ab-"using options/variables to implement
>> what are really
>> function attributes doesn't look very clean.  Unless the plan is to get rid of
>> function attributes in favor of per-function options.
> 
> Function attribute here is one thing (the way user writes it) and that
> combined with the command line options determines the sanitization performed
> (the function attributes only say what sanitization flags should be
> ignored).  The proposed per-function variable is just a cache of this
> information, because parsing function attributes every time is way too
> expensive.

But one the other hand every function decorated with such attribute will lead
to having a separate copy of struct cl_optimization, which is quite big structure.

Another question is how often such attribute is used, I guess usage is quite rare?

Martin

> 
> 	Jakub
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