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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 22:40:43 +0200
From: Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] Mark functions with the __nocapture attribute

On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 09:43:31 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 13:36 +0200, Emese Revfy wrote:
> > The nocapture gcc attribute can be on functions only.
> > The attribute takes one or more unsigned integer constants as parameters
> > that specify the function argument(s) of const char* type to initify.
> 
> Perhaps this should be const <type>*

For me function arguments are the values passed to a function call so
the const char* type is good because this is the only one that the plugin handles
(for now at least).

-- 
Emese

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