[Bug c/17555] function visibility attribute in definition misinterpreted

["jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Additional Comments From jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk  2004-09-18 21:52 -------
Subject: Re:  New: function visibility attribute in definition
 misinterpreted

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, drepper at redhat dot com wrote:

> When a function visibility attribute is used in the definition of a function and
> the return value type of the function is a pointer, the attribute is
> misinterpreted as belonging to the type.  Example:

This appears to be the same as bug 17251.  The attribute in that position 
syntactically applies to the return type, but there has traditionally been 
a fair amount of flexibility in interpreting attributes in "wrong" places 
sensibly - for example, applying attributes on a return type to the 
declaration instead if they don't make sense on the return type.  This is 
what probably makes sense to do in this case.



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