re PR c/3414 (Inaccurate documentation of __attribute__((malloc)))

	PR c/3414
	* doc/extend.texi: Clarify definition of malloc attribute.

From-SVN: r75395

diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index a1b09c01db3f593e257e00b52afd5274928f944c..f37704cbb8212bbdc1c68f0187b0750cb9b0aab6 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-01-04  Joseph S. Myers  <jsm@polyomino.org.uk>
+
+       PR c/3414
+       * doc/extend.texi: Clarify definition of malloc attribute.
+
 2004-01-04  Jan Hubicka  <jh@suse.cz>
 
        * Makefile.in (cgraph.o, cgraphunit.o): Add intl.h dependency.

diff --git a/gcc/doc/extend.texi b/gcc/doc/extend.texi
index ac038554b9ab3eff262decb901bf2b08715d808c..abd841501bf21283f94291b49f7766325fc3c95d 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/doc/extend.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/extend.texi
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-@c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1996,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002, 2003
+@c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1996,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004
 @c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 @c This is part of the GCC manual.
 @c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi.
@@ -2355,9 +2355,14 @@ and linker.
 @item malloc
 @cindex @code{malloc} attribute
 The @code{malloc} attribute is used to tell the compiler that a function
-may be treated as if it were the malloc function.  The compiler assumes
-that calls to malloc result in pointers that cannot alias anything.
+may be treated as if any non-@code{NULL} pointer it returns cannot
+alias any other pointer valid when the function returns.
 This will often improve optimization.
+Standard functions with this property include @code{malloc} and
+@code{calloc}.  @code{realloc}-like functions have this property as
+long as the old pointer is never referred to (including comparing it
+to the new pointer) after the function returns a non-@code{NULL}
+value.
 
 @item alias ("@var{target}")
 @cindex @code{alias} attribute