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Re: nonnull attribute (was: Re: Couldn't `function(arg[static 3])` imply nonnull and array size in C?)
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Martin Uecker <uecker at eecs dot berkeley dot edu>
- Cc: Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopezibanez at gmail dot com>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 20:15:18 +0000
- Subject: Re: nonnull attribute (was: Re: Couldn't `function(arg[static 3])` imply nonnull and array size in C?)
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On Fri, 8 May 2015, Martin Uecker wrote:
> From reading the documentation, it seems that attributes originally
> were supposed to only go with declarations and were not meant to be a
> general extension to the type system. But then there is the example:
>
> char *__attribute__((aligned(8))) *f;
>
> which implies that now (some) attributes could work similar to type
> qualifiers. Is this the idea?
Yes (keeping in mind that many type attributes can only apply to a limited
subset of types - if the attribute is only meaningful for structures or
unions, for example, the syntactic binding inside nested declarators is
fairly irrelevant to it). Make sure to distinguish the binding of GNU
attributes (as defined in the manual) and the binding of C++11 attributes
(as defined in C++11).
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com