On the Effectiveness of nonnull: Difference between revisions
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'''[[Dankblog|dankblog!]] 2021-11-05, 0236 EDT, at [[Viewpoint|the danktower]]''' | '''[[Dankblog|dankblog!]] 2021-11-05, 0236 EDT, at [[Viewpoint|the danktower]]''' | ||
I add | I add [https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html annotations] to my [[C]] programs pretty religiously, making most frequent use of: | ||
* <tt>const</tt> and <tt>pure</tt> -- facilitate subexpression hoisting and memoization | * <tt>const</tt> and <tt>pure</tt> -- facilitate subexpression hoisting and memoization | ||
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<tt>access</tt> lets you get fine-grained, Ada-like controls on your variable access types, but if i were writing Ada i'd be fucking with <tt>gnat</tt> and working for Northrop Grumman and questioning my life choices. | <tt>access</tt> lets you get fine-grained, Ada-like controls on your variable access types, but if i were writing Ada i'd be fucking with <tt>gnat</tt> and working for Northrop Grumman and questioning my life choices. | ||
finally, <tt>nonnull</tt> is all over the place, but it's usually added merely to satisfy the spergy part of my brain that also forces me to compulsively run <tt>ls</tt> every time i switch between terminals just to, like, ensure nothing shifted around. a pleasant surprise today when it caught a bug in my existing code: | |||
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