Re: GNU attributes

[Derek Robert Price]

Guus Leeuw jr. wrote:

> Derek,
>
> Taking a bit from the cluebook from gcc3.0.2, an optimizer may only reduce the 
> number calls to the function, iff
> a) the parameter values are guaranteed the same (i.e. static or non changing 
> variable);
> b) the global variable values used by the pure function are guaranteed to be 
> the same from call to call;
>
> If the optimizer decides a) and b) hold, you should be safe, even when 
> malloc()ing. It will only compute the result once, a re-use it. But then, 
>  

Okay, that was my interpretation as well but I wasn't quite sure. 
Thanks for the help.

Derek

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