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Re: New attribute "infrequent"?

To: Jan Hubicka <jh at suse dot cz>
Subject: Re: New attribute "infrequent"?
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Date: 27 Aug 2001 09:33:32 -0700
Cc: Geert Bosch <bosch at gnat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, pfk at fuchs dot offl dot uni-jena dot de, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, aj at suse dot de
References: <20010827174751.G11402@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz><Pine.GSO.4.10.10108271149500.14650-100000@nile.gnat.com><20010827182250.H11402@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz> writes:

> Optimizing "noreturn" function for size instead of speed should be also good
> idea, but just tiny fraction of code is "noreturn", while "infrequent" is in
> fact majority of code.

It's not always the case that noreturn functions are not
time-critical.  Functions which end longjmp() can very well be used
very frequently.  There is code out there which emulates exception
handling this way.

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References:
- New attribute "infrequent"?
  - From: Jan Hubicka
- Re: New attribute "infrequent"?
  - From: Geert Bosch
- Re: New attribute "infrequent"?
  - From: Jan Hubicka

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