From: Yangfl <mmyangfl@gmail.com>
To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Tell GCC functions do not modify struct
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 15:03:47 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAXyoMPRqbJMo9mV9japafA9HLE68Ze3-KUfex7OMqJKQ9q_tw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hello Everyone,
I'm playing with GCC optimization and come up with a quite common scenario:
struct A { int a; };
void print_a(const struct A *);
int test() {
const struct A a = {3};
print_a(&a);
return a.a == 3;
}
GCC always products a load operation of a.a, that's reasonable. But my
question is, how to tell GCC that the function is guaranteed to not
modify the struct?
I've tried `access` attribute, but that does not help. Of course I can
use __builtin_unreachable around the function call to make a promise,
but that is not a struct-independent solution.
Thanks
next reply other threads:[~2022-03-11 7:04 UTC|newest]
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2022-03-11 7:03 Yangfl [this message]
2022-03-14 21:43 ` Martin Sebor
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