are malloc/new calls annotated if they may return NULL?

Ian Lance Taylor ian@airs.com
Mon Jan 17 18:49:00 GMT 2005


Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:

> >>>>> "Ian" == Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> writes:
> 
> >> Interestingly, when I look through gcc/gcc, I can't find any real uses
> >> of DECL_IS_MALLOC.  Some code sets it, and some code tests it to copy
> >> the flag to a new decl, but nothing actually seems to use it.  Am I
> >> missing something?
> 
> Ian> handle_malloc_attribute() in c-common.c.
> 
> This sets the flag on a decl.  Nothing I can find meaningfully reads
> the flag.

Oh, sorry, misread.  As Daniel said, ECF_MALLOC.

Ian



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