On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 06:28:52PM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> addition of alloc_size attribute to the changes.html.
>
> Ciao, Marcus
Less plugging of examples as suggested by Dirk...
Index: htdocs/gcc-4.3/changes.html
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--- htdocs/gcc-4.3/changes.html 25 May 2007 17:20:59 -0000 1.57
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@@ -199,6 +199,16 @@
the diverse warnings enabled by <code>-Wextra</code>.
</li>
+ <li>
+ A new function attribute <code>alloc_size</code> has been added to
+ mark up <code>malloc</code> style functions. For constant sized
+ allocations this can be used to find out the size of the returned
+ pointer using the <code>__builtin_object_size()</code> function
+ for buffer overflow checking and similar.
+ This supplements the already built-in <code>malloc</code> and
+ <code>calloc</code> constant size handling.
+ </li>
+
</ul>
<h3>C++</h3>
