Patch to extend.texi
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk
Wed May 23 11:48:00 GMT 2001
This patch clarifies one area of the Attribute Syntax documentation.
It passes "make info" and "make dvi". Applied to mainline and branch.
2001-05-23 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
* extend.texi (Attribute Syntax): Clarify application of
attributes to parameters declared as functions or arrays.
--- extend.texi.orig Mon May 21 18:20:01 2001
+++ extend.texi Wed May 23 18:36:43 2001
@@ -2126,7 +2126,11 @@
to that declaration (which may be nested in another declaration, for
example in the case of a parameter declaration). In future, attribute
specifiers in some places may however apply to a particular declarator
-within a declaration instead; these cases are noted below.
+within a declaration instead; these cases are noted below. Where an
+attribute specifier is applied to a parameter declared as a function or
+an array, it should apply to the function or array rather than the
+pointer to which the parameter is implicitly converted, but this is not
+yet correctly implemented.
Any list of specifiers and qualifiers at the start of a declaration may
contain attribute specifiers, whether or not such a list may in that
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk
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