Re: [PATCH] Fix WARN_ON / WARN_ON_ONCE regression

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Tue Oct 10 2006 - 16:04:31 EST


Steven Rostedt wrote:
Holy crap! I wonder where else in the kernel gcc is doing this. (of
course I'm using gcc4 so I don't know). Is there another gcc attribute
to actually tell gcc that a variable is really mostly read only (besides
placing it in a mostly read only elf section)?

That would be nice, but I don't know of one (apart from "volatile", which has its own downsides). Once could imagine an annotation which makes gcc consider writes to the variable relatively expensive, so that it avoids generating unnecessary/excessive writes.

J
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