svn commit: r187961 - in head: include sys/sys
David Schultz
das at FreeBSD.ORG
Sat Jan 31 10:28:02 PST 2009
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009, David Schultz wrote:
> Add a function attribute called `__malloc_like', which informs gcc
> that the annotated function returns a pointer that doesn't alias any
> extant pointer.
It wouldn't hurt if a networking guru added this annotation to the
mbuf allocator as well, but it probably wouldn't help much either.
I deliberately didn't add it to uma(9) because ctors might create
aliases to the memory regions returned by uma_zalloc().
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