Re: get_current is __pure__, maybe __const__ even

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 06:50:00PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>> This looks fixable.
>> At the very least, __attribute__((__pure__))
>> will apply to your get_current function.
>> I think __attribute__((__const__)) will too,
>> even though it's technically against the
>> documentation. While you do indeed read from
>> memory, you don't read from memory that could
>> be seen as changing. Nothing done during the
>> lifetime of a task will change "current" as
>> viewed from within that task.

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 07:15:18PM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> current will certainly change in schedule (),
> so either you'd need to avoid using current
> in schedule() and use some other accessor
> for the same without such attribute, or
> #ifdef the attribute out when compiling sched.c.

Why would barrier() not suffice?


-- wli
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