PATCH: __nodebug__ attribute for use on SSE intrinsic wrappers

[Devang Patel]

On Jul 29, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Geoff Keating wrote:

> On 29/07/2005, at 1:45 PM, Devang Patel wrote:
>
>
>> We're converging towards one  solution (that is, support new  
>> attribute, decorate intrinsic headers, subtract in stabs and use  
>> DW_AT_ARTIFICIAL in DWARF). Now, once 1) one of the GWP OK it in  
>> principal and 2) we select name of new attribute, Fariborz (or I)  
>> can prepare updated patch.
>>
>
> I think this is OK in principle, and there seems to be agreement on  
> this (somewhat violent agreement, but I'm pretty sure it's  
> agreement).  I'm not sure if DW_AT_artificial is an exact match,  
> but the only alternative I see would be a GNU-specific attribute,  
> and I think we should try DW_AT_artificial before going to such  
> lengths.
>
> Marking these functions as DECL_ARTIFICIAL has other consequences,  
> but I don't *think* any of them are undesirable, so I suggest  
> trying that as an implementation technique.
>
> When you document the new attribute, I'd suggest saying that it  
> should only be used in header files that are part of the compiler,  
> or something like that.

OK. I will prepare a patch based on this.

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Devang