Bruno Haible via Gnulib discussion list <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Sam,
Hi Bruno, > > Sam James wrote: >> A function being idempotent / having 'call_once' >> semantics unfortunately doesn't make it suitable for the const >> attribute. This recently came up in both Mesa [0] and glib [1] >> and was confirmed by the GCC developers [2]. >> >> [0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/42361 >> [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/work_items/3984 >> [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/PR125916 > > Rather than have to manually review whole packages for this kind of > mistake, I think it would be good to have compiler warnings about these > incorrect uses of the 'const' and 'pure' attributes. Therefore I've > registered two issues for gcc and clang, respectively: > > const: > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126757 > https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/215105 > > pure: > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126758 > https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/215106 Thanks for filing those! I'll watch them. > > Bruno sam
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