[Bug c/37874] gcc sometimes accepts attribute in identifier list

[joseph at codesourcery dot com]

------- Comment #2 from joseph at codesourcery dot com  2008-10-20 01:51 -------
Subject: Re:  gcc sometimes accepts attribute in identifier list

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, sabre at nondot dot org wrote:

> It also accepts this:
> void f4(__attribute__(()));

This is documented in "Attribute Syntax".  (The acceptance of empty 
attributes, and only empty attributes, at the start of an identifier list, 
is an implementation accident accurately carried over from the old parser 
without noticing it was there, but also a bug.)


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37874