a question about fix-header.c

[Kenneth Zadeck]

Bruce Korb wrote:

>Bruce Korb wrote:
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>>Kenneth Zadeck wrote:
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>>>I would like to modify fix includes so that it adds the attribute
>>>"pointer-no-escape" onto the function definition of free in stdlib.h
>>>(and possibly some other fuctions as well).
>>>
>>>I am having trouble figuring  out how to do this.
>>>
>>>Dan Berlin said that you might be able to point me in the
>>>      
>>>
>>correct direction.
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>"correct direction" ??  Maybe I should have remembered the title,
>instead of reading, "modify fix includes" too literally.
>"fix-header.c" is a different program that is included in the
>more-or-less same process as the "fixincl" program that I wrote.
>For aesthetic reasons, it would be nice to incorporate its
>functionality into the "fixincl" program.  I looked at doing that
>a few years ago, but determined it was more effort than it
>was worth (to me).  At this point, now that fixincludes is
>a semi-autonomous installable project, it would be a good thing
>to do.  Not today. Meanwhile, as far as "correct direction" is
>concerned, I'd have to "read the source, Luke" to try to
>re-understand what fix-header was doing.  Sorry.  :(
>
>Regards, Bruce
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>

Sorry for not being more clear.  I am trying to do this inside of the 
framework of building gcc and the include fixing that is part of that.  
I did not understand that there was a separate project that did this in 
a similar but distinctly different way from the some living project.

kenny