https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=95558
--- Comment #12 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Rich Felker from comment #11) > Are you sure? If pure/const discovery is no longer applied to weak > definitions, it shouldn't be able to propagate to a non-inlined caller. Of > course the fix may be incomplete or not working, which I guess we could tell > from whether it happened prior to or after comment 5. :) There still looks like there is a bug as shown by taking the original testcase in comment #0 and using -O2 -fno-inline, you will get: reclaim_gaps: ret ... foo: ret Which is still wrong as reclaim should not be considered as pure. >From *.pure-const: Starting cycle Visiting donate_dummy/0 state:const looping 0 Result const looping 0 Function found not to call free: donate_dummy/0 Starting cycle Visiting reclaim/2 state:pure looping 0 Call to __malloc_donate/1 const Result pure looping 0 Function found to be pure: reclaim/2 Declaration updated to be pure: reclaim/2 Starting cycle Visiting reclaim_gaps/3 state:pure looping 0 Call to reclaim/2 state:pure looping:0 Call to reclaim/2 state:pure looping:0 Result pure looping 0 Function found to be pure: reclaim_gaps/3 Declaration updated to be pure: reclaim_gaps/3 Starting cycle Visiting foo/4 state:const looping 0 Call to reclaim_gaps/3 state:pure looping:0 Result pure looping 0 Function found to be pure: foo/4 Declaration updated to be pure: foo/4 reclaim, reclaim_gaps and foo are all found as pure. without -fno-inline, we get some early inlining which causes the difference there.