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From: Nathan Sidwell <nathan@acm.org>
To: Alexander Monakov <amonakov@ispras.ru>, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add support for placing variables in shared memory
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 14:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5718DCF0.5000808@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.20.1604201957570.14803@monopod.intra.ispras.ru>

On 04/20/16 12:58, Alexander Monakov wrote:
> Allow using __attribute__((shared)) to place static variables in '.shared'
> memory space.

What is the rationale for a new attribute, rather than leveraging the existing 
section(".shared") machinery?

> +  else if (current_function_decl && !TREE_STATIC (decl))
> +    {
> +      error ("%qE attribute only applies to non-stack variables", name);

'non-stack'?  don't you mean 'static' or 'static storage'?

Needs a test case.

nathan

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-21 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-20 16:58 Alexander Monakov
2016-04-21 14:00 ` Nathan Sidwell [this message]
2016-04-21 14:25   ` Alexander Monakov
2016-04-22 13:09     ` Nathan Sidwell
2016-04-22 14:04       ` Alexander Monakov
2016-04-25 14:47         ` Nathan Sidwell
2016-04-25 17:49           ` Alexander Monakov
2016-04-26 13:06             ` Nathan Sidwell
2016-05-06 17:11 ` [PATCH v2] " Alexander Monakov
2016-05-09 13:39   ` Nathan Sidwell

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