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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Document that the 'access' and 'nonnull' attributes are independent
From: Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber () embedded-brains ! de>
Date: 2022-03-23 16:52:07
Message-ID: e8dcb924-226c-db55-229d-ebe9b2e58486 () embedded-brains ! de
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On 23/03/2022 17:31, Martin Sebor via Gcc-patches wrote:
>
> The concern is that the constraints implied by atttributes access and
> nonnull are independent of each other. I would suggest to document
> that without talking about dereferencing because that's not implied
> by either of them. E.g., something like this (feel free to tweak it
> as you see fit):
>
> Note that the @code{access} attribute doesn't imply the same
> constraint as attribute @code{nonnull} (@pxref{Attribute nonnull}).
> The latter attribute should be used to annotate arguments that must
> never be null, regardless of the value of the size argument.
I would not give an advice on using the nonnull attribute here. This
attribute could have pretty dangerous effects in the function definition
(removal of null pointer checks).
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