Re: [autovect][patch]Enable fortran to declare a "const" builtin function

[Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>]

On Mar 1, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Keith Besaw wrote:
> Rather than have fortran's builtin_function search just for the "const"
> attribute
> I could provide a routine decl_common_attributes in c-common.c that is
> modeled after decl_attribute from attribs.c.  It could just search for
> const,
> noreturn, and pure and call routines in c-common.c such as
> handle_const_attribute.
> Alternatively, it could traverse the attributes in
> lang_hooks.common_attribute_table,
> and I would need to construct a common_attribute_table for fortran that
> included
> const, noreturn, and pure.
>
> Note, decl_attributes in attribs.c traverses the following four 
> attribute
> tables
>   attribute_tables[0] = lang_hooks.common_attribute_table;
>   attribute_tables[1] = lang_hooks.attribute_table;
>   attribute_tables[2] = lang_hooks.format_attribute_table;
>   attribute_tables[3] = targetm.attribute_table;
>
> Opinion or another alternative?

Yes have attribute_tables include a common between languages attribute 
table
and move the handling of const, noreturn, pure (and a couple of others) 
into
a common between all languages file.

-- Pinski