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From: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
Cc: Richard Sandiford <richard.sandiford@arm.com>,
	Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>,
	<gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>, <polacek@redhat.com>,
	<jason@redhat.com>, <nathan@acm.org>
Subject: Re: [WIP RFC] Add support for keyword-based attributes
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 23:25:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ea49f3-954f-e4aa-1721-8258f1bb5f75@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.20.2307171347170.13548@wotan.suse.de>

On Mon, 17 Jul 2023, Michael Matz via Gcc-patches wrote:

> So, essentially you want unignorable attributes, right?  Then implement 
> exactly that: add one new keyword "__known_attribute__" (invent a better 
> name, maybe :) ), semantics exactly as with __attribute__ (including using 
> the same underlying lists in our data structures), with only one single 
> deviation: instead of the warning you give an error for unhandled 
> attributes.  Done.

Assuming you also want the better-defined standard rules about how [[]] 
attributes appertain to particular entities, rather than the different 
__attribute__ rules, that would suggest something like [[!some::attr]] for 
the case of attributes that can't be ignored but otherwise are handled 
like standard [[]] attributes.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-21 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-14 15:56 Richard Sandiford
2023-07-14 17:17 ` Jakub Jelinek
2023-07-16 10:50   ` Richard Sandiford
2023-07-17 13:39     ` Jason Merrill
2023-07-17 14:06       ` Richard Sandiford
2023-07-14 21:14 ` Nathan Sidwell
2023-07-16 10:18   ` Richard Sandiford
2023-07-17  6:38 ` Richard Biener
2023-07-17  8:21   ` Richard Sandiford
2023-07-17  9:05     ` Richard Biener
2023-07-17 13:53     ` Michael Matz
2023-07-21 23:25       ` Joseph Myers [this message]
2023-08-16 10:36         ` Richard Sandiford
2023-08-16 13:22           ` Joseph Myers
2023-08-17 11:24             ` [PATCH] c: Add support for [[__extension__ ...]] Richard Sandiford
2023-08-17 17:07               ` Richard Biener
2023-08-17 18:36                 ` Richard Sandiford
2023-08-18  9:51               ` Richard Sandiford
2023-08-18 19:51                 ` Joseph Myers

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