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Re: [PATCH] Add attribute "artificial"


On Aug 5, 2005, at 4:07 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 04:06:13PM -0700, Dale Johannesen wrote:
On Aug 5, 2005, at 4:03 PM, 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".

In that case, why document it externally at all? If you do, people _will_ misuse it.

Because if you don't, it's a documentation regression, and people will look at the header, see the attribute, and try to figure out what it does...

...and hopefully they won't be able to and will therefore not use it. This is what we want.


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