Why does G++ not accept the unused attribute on labels ?

[Nathan Sidwell]

Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
>   Why does G++ not accept the unused attribute on labels ?
because the grammar is ambiguous

in c99 you cannot have a labelled declaration statement, in c++ you can.
	label: __attribute__((unused)) int i;
which is unused? the label or the variable?

you can say
	label __attribute__((unused)):
in both gcc and g++

nathan

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