On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 9:45 AM Wathsala Wathawana Vithanage <wathsala.vithan...@arm.com> wrote: > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > Subject: [PATCH v6 17/17] eal: add function attributes for allocation > > functions > > > > The allocation functions take a alignment argument that can be useful to > > hint > > the compiler optimizer. This is supported by GCC and Clang but only useful > > with > > GCC because Clang gives warning if alignment is 0. > > > > Newer versions of GCC have a malloc attribute that can be used to find > > mismatches between allocation and free; the typical problem caught is a > > pointer allocated with rte_malloc() that is then incorrectly freed using > > free(). > > The name of the DPDK wrapper macros for these attributes are chosen to be > > similar to what GLIBC is using in cdefs.h. > > Note: The rte_free function prototype was moved ahead of the allocation > > functions since the dealloc attribute now refers to it. > > > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> > > Acked-by: Chengwen Feng <fengcheng...@huawei.com> > > Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.bura...@intel.com> > > Acked-by: Wathsala Vithanage <wathsala.vithan...@arm.com> Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khapa...@broadcom.com>
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