From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
To: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
Cc: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>,
Richard Biener <rguenther@suse.de>,
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>,
Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a new type attribute always_alias (PR79671)
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 16:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170405160849.GV17461@tucnak> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170405160333.GR4425@redhat.com>
On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 05:03:33PM +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> > I wanted to say it behaves mostly like __attribute__((may_alias))
> > except that may_alias only has an effect on pointers and references
> > but not when accessing an object directly, (I hope you know what
> > I mean).
>
> And may_alias is not a very helpful name either.
>
> I much prefer Richi's suggestion of typeless_storage.
>
> But I'm not convinced we need the attribute at all. If a struct
> containing an array of std::byte or unsigned char has the property
> already then that's good. I don't think we need a non-portable way to
> make other types behave the same. If you can change the code to use a
> new GCC attribute then you can change the code to use an array of
> unsigned char, and be portable.
It will only work that way in C++ though, so if you want to achieve
the same in C, which doesn't have any special case for unsigned char
arrays nor std::byte, you need an attribute.
Jakub
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-05 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-05 9:46 Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-05 13:28 ` Jakub Jelinek
2017-04-05 15:20 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-05 17:41 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-05 20:18 ` Jason Merrill
2017-04-05 20:46 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-05 22:54 ` Pedro Alves
2017-04-06 10:08 ` Jonathan Wakely
2017-04-06 7:23 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-05 15:27 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-05 15:29 ` Jakub Jelinek
2017-04-05 14:50 ` Florian Weimer
2017-04-05 15:23 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-05 15:38 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-05 16:03 ` Jonathan Wakely
2017-04-05 16:08 ` Jakub Jelinek [this message]
2017-04-05 17:23 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-05 21:02 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-05 23:17 ` Sandra Loosemore
2017-04-06 5:40 ` Jakub Jelinek
2017-04-06 7:47 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-06 7:51 ` Jakub Jelinek
2017-04-06 7:55 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-06 14:11 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-06 14:17 ` Florian Weimer
2017-04-06 14:23 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-06 14:43 ` Jonathan Wakely
2017-04-06 14:51 ` Florian Weimer
2017-04-06 15:05 ` Jakub Jelinek
2017-04-06 15:10 ` Florian Weimer
2017-04-06 19:13 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-11 10:43 ` Florian Weimer
2017-04-11 10:48 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-06 17:39 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-06 17:48 ` Florian Weimer
2017-04-06 18:12 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-06 18:19 ` Florian Weimer
2017-04-06 18:49 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-06 19:05 ` Florian Weimer
2017-04-06 19:20 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-07 6:47 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-07 12:58 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-06 19:16 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-07 6:56 ` Florian Weimer
2017-04-07 8:01 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-06 19:14 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-06 19:51 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-06 14:22 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-06 21:00 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-07 6:54 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-07 13:37 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-07 15:10 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-07 15:33 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-07 20:22 ` Jason Merrill
2017-04-10 12:50 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-10 14:41 ` Jason Merrill
2017-04-10 15:31 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-10 16:35 ` Jason Merrill
2017-04-11 10:32 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-11 11:53 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-11 13:35 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-11 18:47 ` Jason Merrill
2017-04-10 21:40 ` Pedro Alves
2017-04-11 7:37 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-06 20:20 ` Bernd Edlinger
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