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From: Mikhail Iakovlev <misha () cerber no> (Mikhail Iakovlev)
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 21:07:31 +0200
Hello silvio, Seems to me like a good idea too, did you consider sending your suggestions to gcc team? Mik- Friday, September 27, 2002, 9:08:19 PM, you wrote: sbna> Aplogies Mik :) sbna> -- sbna> Does anyone think something like hints for compiler should be more sbna> standardized in specifications or os? sbna> I mean.. it wold be nice to have something like this in gcc standard sbna> includes and every other compiler (as optional implementation). sbna> #define NORETURN sbna> #if we are in gcc and its implemented sbna> #undef NORETURN sbna> #define NORETURN __attribute__((noreturn)) sbna> #endif sbna> and then go through things like all the usage functions in your system sbna> and change them to use it. sbna> if this were done across the free opensource os's, i'm sure alot of sbna> people could get involved into submitting patches, since it would be sbna> only trivial changes. sbna> for me.. i think noreturn is a good compiler hint. it makes for smaller sbna> code, and helps program analysis. almost every binary on your system sbna> does an exit in usage(), so these are good places to add this straight off sbna> the bat, with the entire system thus benefitting. sbna> I personally dont like the idea of adding attributes directly, since they sbna> are quite gcc specific. or even using the builtin's to be honest, sbna> but if they are macro's that can be changed easily, i say even the sbna> builtin branch prediction and almost everything else should become sbna> standardized as macro's, which are purely optional in implementation (but sbna> would be with gcc!). sbna> -- sbna> Silvio sbna> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 07:59:41PM +0200, Mikhail Iakovlev wrote:
Hello silvio, Friday, September 27, 2002, 7:48:45 PM, you wrote: sbna> THREATCON ADVISORY 1.21 --> "b4ck t0 th3 futur3" sbna> Be w4rned. this advisory requires 1.21 jiggyflopz of electricity to sbna> get you back to 1996. Silvio, please read my mail again. It doesn't concern you, and to be honest I am surprised that you replied :) I have no questions about your abilities at all. Never had any. Mik- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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