[Bug c/100939] Missing warning with misplaced attribute declaration in struct, enum, or union definition

johnfbennett at protonmail dot com gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org
Thu Jun 10 04:23:09 GMT 2021


https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100939

--- Comment #1 from johnfbennett at protonmail dot com ---
G++ does have a good warning for this scenario:

$ g++ -Wall misplacedattribute.c
misplacedattribute.c: In function ‘int main()’:
misplacedattribute.c:7:37: warning: attributes ignored on
elaborated-type-specifier that is not a forward declaration [-Wattributes]
    7 |  struct __attribute__((__unused__)) samplestruct samplestruct;
      |                                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~
misplacedattribute.c:7:50: warning: unused variable ‘samplestruct’
[-Wunused-variable]
    7 |  struct __attribute__((__unused__)) samplestruct samplestruct;
      |                                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~


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