Patch: malloc function attribute

[Anthony Green]

Jeff wrote:
> I don't remember getting a conclusive answer on that issue.  Also note
> that attributes are probably more likely to work in a language like Java
> than __restrict.  

FWIW, this is a non-issue for Java, where attributes aren't available
to programmers.  They're only used in the parts of the runtime that
are written in C++ and C, like...

/* Allocate space that is known to be pointer-free.  */
void *_Jv_AllocBytes (jsize size) __attribute__((__malloc__));

There are about a dozen routines like this.  If there were some better
way of achieving the same result in C/C++ then that would be fine.

AG

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