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Date:      Sat, 17 Mar 2018 11:38:29 -0700
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>,  FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gf128_add can be marked as __pure2
Message-ID:  <CAF6rxgnt9eXuLxAa6ZVc7k-CjQYUjfLW4%2B%2BYe%2BQM2giMFwjv8A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180317173815.GM75576@funkthat.com>
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On 17 March 2018 at 10:38, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote:
> Eitan Adler wrote this message on Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 19:15 -0800:
>> Is there any reason not to apply this patch?
>
> I don't see why there wouldn't be..
>
>> __pure2 means  __attribute__((const)) which is correct in this case as
>>  gf128_add read no global memory:
>
> Are these documented some where?  Looksl ike __pure2 was created instead
> of using __pure for some reason...  I wish these things were documented
> properly so others could know the correct usage...

I don't know where the FreeBSD macros are documented (they are
implementedi cdefs.h).
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Function-Attributes.html#Common-Function-Attributes
documents the attributes

__pure2 is const
__pure is pure

-- 
Eitan Adler



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