[PATCH] Add attribute "artificial"

Daniel Berlin dberlin@dberlin.org
Thu Aug 11 00:02:00 GMT 2005


On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 16:51 -0700, Devang Patel wrote:
> On Aug 10, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> 
> > If you actually promise to do the work, i have no problem with the
> > current patch (in theory) as a starting point.
> 
> No, I do not. If that is the requirement then I am withdrawing my  
> patch.

I can't make requirements, i can only make suggestions (and before
someone whines, i'm willing to do the work to allow intrinsics to have
attributes not specifide in the headers).

> In my opinion having user visible attribute is just fine. Mark  
> himself admitted that it is useful in some cases.

If you want it user visible, than the documentation you put forth is,
IMHO, not acceptable.
It said something like "This is only intended for use by the compiler".
If that is really true, it shouldn't be user visible.
If it isn't, than the docs need to be clear and correct as to what the
attribute does.



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> Devang
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