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authorMartin Sebor <msebor@redhat.com>2021-05-16 15:21:18 -0600
committerMartin Sebor <msebor@redhat.com>2021-05-16 15:21:18 -0600
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Enable support for GCC 11 -Wmismatched-dealloc.
To help detect common kinds of memory (and other resource) management bugs, GCC 11 adds support for the detection of mismatched calls to allocation and deallocation functions. At each call site to a known deallocation function GCC checks the set of allocation functions the former can be paired with and, if the two don't match, issues a -Wmismatched-dealloc warning (something similar happens in C++ for mismatched calls to new and delete). GCC also uses the same mechanism to detect attempts to deallocate objects not allocated by any allocation function (or pointers past the first byte into allocated objects) by -Wfree-nonheap-object. This support is enabled for built-in functions like malloc and free. To extend it beyond those, GCC extends attribute malloc to designate a deallocation function to which pointers returned from the allocation function may be passed to deallocate the allocated objects. Another, optional argument designates the positional argument to which the pointer must be passed. This change is the first step in enabling this extended support for Glibc.
Diffstat (limited to 'misc')
-rw-r--r--misc/sys/cdefs.h11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/misc/sys/cdefs.h b/misc/sys/cdefs.h
index 11f01f7..30a621a 100644
--- a/misc/sys/cdefs.h
+++ b/misc/sys/cdefs.h
@@ -603,6 +603,17 @@ _Static_assert (0, "IEEE 128-bits long double requires redirection on this platf
# define __attr_access_none(argno)
#endif
+#if __GNUC_PREREQ (11, 0)
+/* Designates dealloc as a function to call to deallocate objects
+ allocated by the declared function. */
+# define __attr_dealloc(dealloc, argno) \
+ __attribute__ ((__malloc__ (dealloc, argno)))
+# define __attr_dealloc_free __attr_dealloc (__builtin_free, 1)
+#else
+# define __attr_dealloc(dealloc, argno)
+# define __attr_dealloc_free
+#endif
+
/* Specify that a function such as setjmp or vfork may return
twice. */
#if __GNUC_PREREQ (4, 1)