Tell the compiler that QArrayData::allocate allocates memory

ICC, GCC and Clang support __attribute__((malloc)) that tells them that
the function returns newly allocated memory which doesn't alias anything
else. Though technically we may return memory that has already been used
(the shared null or such), that should not be a problem.

Change-Id: Id3d5c7bf4d4c45069621ffff13f7f81f8b08ea3d
Reviewed-by: Simon Hausmann <simon.hausmann@qt.io>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/corelib/tools/qarraydata.h b/src/corelib/tools/qarraydata.h
index 94182a531c..a2d9901677 100644
--- a/src/corelib/tools/qarraydata.h
+++ b/src/corelib/tools/qarraydata.h
@@ -109,7 +109,11 @@ struct Q_CORE_EXPORT QArrayData
         return result;
     }
 
-    Q_REQUIRED_RESULT static QArrayData *allocate(size_t objectSize, size_t alignment,
+    Q_REQUIRED_RESULT
+#if defined(Q_CC_GNU)
+    __attribute__((__malloc__))
+#endif
+    static QArrayData *allocate(size_t objectSize, size_t alignment,
             size_t capacity, AllocationOptions options = Default) noexcept;
     Q_REQUIRED_RESULT static QArrayData *reallocateUnaligned(QArrayData *data, size_t objectSize,
             size_t newCapacity, AllocationOptions newOptions = Default) noexcept;