linux-kernel - Re: On __pure and __attribute_pure_

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Date:	Tue, 15 May 2007 05:22:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Heikki Orsila <shdl@...alwe.fi>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: On __pure and __attribute_pure__

On Tue, 15 May 2007, Heikki Orsila wrote:

> Both __pure and __attribute_pure__ are the same, and I found out that
> there is only a handful of users for these. __attribute_pure__ is
> used in approximately 15 places, and __pure is not used anywhere.
>
> Is either __pure or __attribute_pure__ preferred? Imo, __pure looks
> much nicer than __attribute_pure__ so we could do a replacement.

that was pretty much the point of my earlier post -- given the
precedent for all of the other short forms, there seems to be no
reason not to simply use "__pure" and delete the longer definition.

i'll post a patch for that shortly.

rday
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