The attribute is more relaxed than const and the functions could
dereference pointers, as long as the observable state is not changed. We
do have such functions, based on -Wsuggest-attribute=pure .

The visible effects of this patch are negligible, there are differences
in the assembly but hard to summarize.
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>