* Alexander Monakov:
> On Wed, 7 Dec 2016, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>> > For example, this might have impact on writing test for GCC:
>> >
>> > When I am writing a test with noinline + noclone then my
>> > expectation is that no such propagation happens, because
>> > otherwise a test might turn trivial...
>>
>> The usual ways to prevent that are to add some volatile, or an
>> asm("" : "+g"(some_var)); etc.
>
> No, that doesn't sound right. As far as I can tell from looking
> that the GCC testsuite, the prevailing way is actually the
> noinline+noclone combo, not the per-argument asms or volatiles.
Agreed, that's what I've been using in the past for glibc test cases.
If that doesn't work, we'll need something else. Separate compilation
of test cases just to thwart compiler optimizations is a significant
burden, and will stop working once we have LTO anyway.
What about making the function definitions weak? Would that be more
reliable?
