kees wrote: > > I'd expect some kind of diagnostic when the specified field doesn't have a > > corresponding counted_by field. > > So there's a complication with that. The use case for this builtin is to > automatically set the `count` field during allocation in the Linux kernel. > (It could be used elsewhere, but Linux is why we're doing this now.) From my > understanding, @kees wants to have a way to get the `count` field without > having to change the allocator's prototype. (Is that correct?) That's not > currently possible, or at least we haven't found a way to do it yet.
Yup, that's correct. There needs to be a way to programmatically determine what the "counter" variable is so that we don't have to create a separate (and ultimately redundant) allocator API for FAM structs that use "counted_by". It could be entirely automatic. Some more background details are here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240807235433.work.317-k...@kernel.org/ https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/102549 _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list cfe-commits@lists.llvm.org https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
