* Alexander Monakov: > 2. Can we gently suggest to readers of documentation that this was > invented for use in the GCC testsuite, and encourage them to seek > proper alternatives, e.g.: > > This attribute is exposed for the purpose of testing the compiler. > In general it should be preferable to properly constrain code > generation using the language facilities: for example, using > separate compilation or calling through a volatile pointer > achieves a similar effect in a portable way
Separate compilation has caveats with LTO, and I don't think the claim is true for volatile function pointers, as I've already explained.
