Re: GTY as attribute

[Taras Glek <tglek at mozilla dot com>]

Andrew,
I think you are misunderstanding the scope of this. People have no 
reason to increase use of GTY attributes outside of GCC, they can use 
GNU attributes directly. This is what we do at Mozilla.
This just makes it easier to parse GCC headers without loosing GTY 
information.

This patch in no way encourages use of GTY, but provides a rather 
trivial way (compared to reinventing gengtype outside of GCC) to get at 
the information in the GCC sources. This would help reduce the 
difference and associated merging effort between our tree and the GCC 
mainline.

Taras

Andrew Pinski wrote:
> Really I think this is a bad idea.  Now people will start using GTY
> attribute in their code and we can't change it, even with it being
> documented as being a GCC only feature.  Also this attribute should
> really be documented as much as it can be.
>
> Also if you are changing where GTY has to go, you need to update the
> documentation to say that requirement.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew Pinski
>