On 05/31/2017 02:04 PM, Richard Biener wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 01:46:00PM +0200, Richard Biener wrote:
>>> Just wanting to add that "ab-"using options/variables to implement
>>> what are really
>>> function attributes doesn't look very clean.  Unless the plan is to get rid 
>>> of
>>> function attributes in favor of per-function options.
>>
>> Function attribute here is one thing (the way user writes it) and that
>> combined with the command line options determines the sanitization performed
>> (the function attributes only say what sanitization flags should be
>> ignored).  The proposed per-function variable is just a cache of this
>> information, because parsing function attributes every time is way too
>> expensive.
> 
> True, but isn't that just an excuse to not improve attribute list
> representation?
> 
> Ideally we'd have sth like attributes.def and a sorted vector of
> integer id, args
> pairs.  Using a sorted vector of the existing stuff (compared to the tree 
> list)
> might also help.

Then it would be tree-wise very similar to CONSTRUCTOR which also contains 
vector
of (index, value) pairs?

> 
> Yes, we'd get (quite?) a bit less attribute list sharing this way but
> we can still
> share the actual tree-whatever thing that represents the args.

Any estimation how difficult such transformation would be?

Martin

> 
> Richard.
> 
>>
>>         Jakub

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