Re: gcc feature request / RFC: extra clobbered regs

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Wed Jul 01 2015 - 13:38:58 EST


On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Vladimir Makarov <vmakarov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Actually it raise a question for me. If we describe that a function
> clobbers more than calling convention and then use it as a value (assigning
> a variable or passing as an argument) and loosing a track of it and than
> call it. How can RA know what the call clobbers actually. So for the
> function with the attributes we should prohibit use it as a value or make
> the attributes as a part of the function type, or at least say it is unsafe.

I think it should be part of the type. This shouldn't compile:

void func(void) __attribute__((used_reg("r12")));
void (*x)(void);
x = func;

--Andy
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