Event posted on 2010-06-28 06:21 PDT by woodard

From: 	keasler1
To: 	woodard9
Subject: 	g++ __attribute__ ((used))
Date: 	06/25/2010 01:28:59 PM



Hi,

I have a templated class-static member function that I need to compile  
into my code for use in the debugger.  I tried adding "__attribute__  
((used))" to the function declaration in the hope that would force  
template instantiation of the function whenever the user made an  
instantitation of the class (i.e. they called a constructor for the  
class with a given template signature somewhere in their code).   
Unfortunately, the "used" attribute is not being honored in this case.

My workaround has been to add the following code to all my constructors:

     if (this == NULL)
        func(this) ;

But this is very messy since each of my classes has tens of constructors.

Any comments or suggestions?

Thanks,
-Jeff

From: 	Ben Woodard <bwoodard>
To: 	keasler1
Cc: 	woodard9
Subject: 	Re: g++ __attribute__ ((used))
Date: 	06/25/2010 03:10:04 PM


So first of all I need to make sure that I understand.

You want a particular static member function in a templated class to be
available so that you can call it from the debugger but it is never
called from the actual program. So the compiler eliminates it as dead
code. 

You want to prevent the function from ever being eliminated and you
hoped that "__attribute__ ((used))" would do that for you but it doesn't
seem to work.

-ben

From: 	keasler1
To: 	Ben Woodard <bwoodard>
Subject: 	Re: g++ __attribute__ ((used))
Date: 	06/25/2010 03:21:09 PM

Right.  However, I don't expect the static member function to be  
instantiated unless the templated class it is attached to is  
instantiated.

If you are on-site and can get into B453, I'd be happy to show you why  
this is important to not just me.

-Jeff

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 issue 1070613

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I believe this is already fixed in RHEL 6.2, under:
* Wed Aug 24 2011 Jakub Jelinek <jakub> 4.4.6-3
...
- support used attribute on template class methods and static data
  members for forced instantiation (#722587, PR c++/43125)