gf128_add can be marked as __pure2
Eitan Adler
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Sat Mar 17 18:39:01 UTC 2018
On 17 March 2018 at 10:38, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at 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
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Eitan Adler
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