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Re: [PATCH 2/4] enhance overflow and truncation detection in strncpy and strncat (PR 81117)

On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Martin Sebor wrote:

>  /* This header provides a declarative way of describing the attributes
> -   that are applied to some functions by default.
> +   that are applied to some built-in functions by default.  Attributes
> +   that apply to types or variables but not functions need not and
> +   should not be defined here.

It's not just type and variable attributes that shouldn't be here.  Any 
function attribute that's not used by at least one built-in function 
shouldn't be here either.  Every tree constructed here adds to startup 
costs; they should only be present if actually used.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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