Question

How (in GCC/”GNU C”) do you declare a function pointer which points to an __attribute__((const)) function? The idea being that I want the compiler to avoid generating multiple calls to the function called through the function pointer when it can cache the return value from a previous call.

Answer 1

typedef void (*t_const_function)(void) __attribute__((const));

static __attribute__((const)) void A(void) {
}

static void B(void) {
}

int main(int argc, const char* argv[]) {
    t_const_function a = A;

    // warning: initialization makes qualified
    // function pointer from unqualified:
    t_const_function b = B;

    return 0;
}

Or just:

__attribute__((const)) void(*a)(void) = A;