linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Replace __attribute_pure__ with _

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Date:	Sat, 6 Oct 2007 14:49:57 -0400
From:	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	bryan.wu@...log.com, michael.frysinger@...log.com,
	robin.getz@...log.com, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	LKML Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace __attribute_pure__ with __pure

Trimmed the CC list a bit

On Oct 05, 2007, at 20:51:21, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Ralf Baechle wrote:
>> To be consistent with the use of attributes in the rest of the  
>> kernel replace all use of __attribute_pure__ with __pure and  
>> delete the definition of __attribute_pure__.
>
> Concern: __attribute_pure__ is very similar to __attribute_const__,  
> which is almost completely, but not totally unlike the keyword  
> "const"...

Yes, there's also the fact that __pure is a reserved GCC keyword.   
Essentially according to GCC docs all of the GCC-specific keywords  
are equivalently defined as "keyword", "__keyword", and  
"__keyword__", with only the latter two defined in strict-ANSI mode.   
The following is valid according to GCC docs:

static int __attribute__((__pure)) my_strlen(const char *str);

With the proposed definition of __pure, that becomes a noticeably  
invalid __attribute__((__attribute__((__pure__))))


Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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