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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 12:02:27 -0800
From: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
To: Morten =?iso-8859-1?Q?Br=F8rup?= <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] eal: add nonnull and access function attributes
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On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 04:34:32PM +0100, Morten Brørup wrote:
> Add "nonnull" function attribute to help the compiler detect a NULL
> pointer being passed to a function not accepting NULL pointers as an
> argument at build time.
> 
> Add "access" function attribute to tell the optimizer how a function
> accesses its pointer arguments.
> 
> Add these attributes to the rte_memcpy() function, as the first in
> hopefully many to come.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
> ---

thanks for providing the non-gcc expansion to empty.

Acked-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>