[project @ 2004-03-23 10:04:18 by simonmar]

Give the malloc functiosn the __malloc__ attribute, if available.
Helps with aliasing optimisations, apparently.

Submitted by: Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts@worcester.oxford.ac.uk>

diff --git a/ghc/rts/RtsUtils.h b/ghc/rts/RtsUtils.h
index cd02f47..dd036a9 100644 (file)
--- a/ghc/rts/RtsUtils.h
+++ b/ghc/rts/RtsUtils.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * $Id: RtsUtils.h,v 1.20 2004/02/26 16:36:21 simonmar Exp $
+ * $Id: RtsUtils.h,v 1.21 2004/03/23 10:04:18 simonmar Exp $
  *
  * (c) The GHC Team, 1998-1999
  *
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@
 #define RTSUTILS_H
 
 /* (Checked) dynamic allocation: */
-extern void *stgMallocBytes(int n, char *msg);
+extern void *stgMallocBytes(int n, char *msg) GNUC3_ATTRIBUTE(__malloc__);
 extern void *stgReallocBytes(void *p, int n, char *msg);
-extern void *stgCallocBytes(int n, int m, char *msg);
+extern void *stgCallocBytes(int n, int m, char *msg) GNUC3_ATTRIBUTE(__malloc__);
 extern void stgFree(void* p);
 
 extern void barf(char *s, ...) GNU_ATTRIBUTE(__noreturn__);