function attribute const

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 13, 2002, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 05:03:28PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> 
>> But you also have to make sure the compiler won't move the
>> initialization past the call of the const function.

> It can't do that if the pointer was originally obtained from a function
> that did the allocation and initialization, or if it was passed in as
> an argument after being initialized.

That's not enough of you take inlining into account.

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