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Re: [PATCH] Add attribute "artificial"
Devang Patel wrote:
On Aug 5, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
It doesn't mean anything to people who aren't GCC hackers.
This is not for external people. Geoff asked me to put this in docs
"This attribute is suitable for compiler provided intrinsics headers
only".
I've gone back and reread the thread; I had only seen part of it before.
Sorry for being a bonehead.
The best justification for the name is probably that it's supposed to be
like DW_AT_artificial, which does prove the name means something to
people outside of GCC; namely people who also understand DWARF. Also, I
can't really come up with a better name, so I'll withdraw that objection
too.
However, I don't see why we should have that sentence in the
documentation. I can't see why users wouldn't necessarily want to use
this on other funny bits of magic. Why do we need to restrict it like that?
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