Re: [PATCH] win32: avoid discarding the exception handler

[Thomas Huth]

On 25/09/2023 13.39, marcandre.lureau@redhat.com wrote:
> From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
>
> In all likelihood, the compiler with lto doesn't see the function being
> used, from assembly macro __try1. Help it by marking the function has
> being used.
>
> Fixes:

I'd suggest to use "Resolves:" for bug tickets so that they get auto-closed 
when the patch is merged.

> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1904
>
> Fixes: commit d89f30b4df ("win32: wrap socket close() with an exception 
> handler")
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
> ---
>   include/qemu/compiler.h | 6 ++++++
>   util/oslib-win32.c      | 2 +-
>   2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/qemu/compiler.h b/include/qemu/compiler.h
> index a309f90c76..5c7f63f351 100644
> --- a/include/qemu/compiler.h
> +++ b/include/qemu/compiler.h
> @@ -197,4 +197,10 @@
>   #define BUILTIN_SUBCLL_BROKEN
>   #endif
>   
> +#if __has_attribute(used)
> +# define QEMU_USED __attribute__((used))
> +#else
> +# define QEMU_USED
> +#endif

I first thought we could maybe do it without the detour via the QEMU_USED 
macro, but seems like Clang just learnt this attribute with version 13:

 https://releases.llvm.org/12.0.0/tools/clang/docs/AttributeReference.html
 https://releases.llvm.org/13.0.0/tools/clang/docs/AttributeReference.html

(while GCC already has it in version 7).

So yes, this seems the right way to do this.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>