Re: [PATCH] add support for placing variables in shared memory

[Nathan Sidwell]

On 04/20/16 12:58, Alexander Monakov wrote:
Allow using __attribute__((shared)) to place static variables in '.shared'
memory space.

What is the rationale for a new attribute, rather than leveraging the existing 
section(".shared") machinery?

+  else if (current_function_decl && !TREE_STATIC (decl))
+    {
+      error ("%qE attribute only applies to non-stack variables", name);

'non-stack'?  don't you mean 'static' or 'static storage'?

Needs a test case.

nathan