_FORITY_SOURCE and -Werror=unused-result ...I don't get it

2017-04-29 Thread Sebastian Noack
Hi everybody, If you use -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (or 1), some additionally checks, both, at compile- and run-time, supposed to catch buffer overflows, are performed. Debian (and some other distributions) use this option by default, when packaging software. And since I generally build my code with -Wer

Re: PowerPC SPE maintainership (was Re: Obsolete powerpc*-*-*spe*)

2017-04-29 Thread Jeff Law
On 04/28/2017 05:15 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote: Hi Andrew, On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:18:55AM +0100, Andrew Jenner wrote: On 13/03/2017 18:01, Andrew Jenner wrote: I volunteer to be the point of contact for the SPE port. Over here at CodeSourcery/Mentor Embedded, we have a strong interest i

Re: Ada gcc compiler for ia64-hp-openvms

2017-04-29 Thread David SAUVAGE - AdaLabs Ltd
On 04/28/2017 06:47 PM, David Edelsohn wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:55 AM, David SAUVAGE - AdaLabs Ltd > wrote: >> Dear GCC Steering Committee, >> >> I am David, founder of AdaLabs Ltd, a software engineering startup >> having expertise in Ada programming language technologies. As a summary

Help with getting started with adding IPA-related attribute

2017-04-29 Thread Daniel Santos
Brievity is not my forte, so let me start with the questions. Can somebody please point me to the pass and/or function where gcc 1.) decides rather or not to inline a function, 2.) decides rather or not to make a .constprop version of a function, 3.) a good pass (when all constant propagation i