CC’ing Claudiu’s oracle email.
> On Oct 7, 2025, at 23:29, Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2025 at 09:02:21PM +0000, Qing Zhao wrote:
>> Hi, Kees,
>>
>> I took a look at the patch today.
>> Overall, I think the patch is good and should work well.
>
> Thanks!
>
>> My major questions are:
>>
>> 1. Are the five functions in the current list the only functions in
>> __builtin_arc_*** that
>> have const attribute?
>
> They are the only ones I can safely assert are const attribute without
> doing additional work. I'm sure there are more, but I didn't feel
> comfortable marking others.
>
>> 2. In addition to “const” attribute, are there any other important
>> attributes should be added for
>> the arc builtins to enable more optimizations?
>
> Again, I'm not sure. But my goal here is to make it possible to add
> these going forward if people find stuff to add. Before this patch it
> wasn't possible at all -- the infrastructure to do so was missing, so
> that's what I wanted to add: the infrastructure and the first user. :)
>
> --
> Kees Cook
