[PATCH v4] Introduce attribute sym

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul 22, 2023, Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com> wrote:

> I wonder whether this attribute can be named "alias" without arguments.

Erhm...  Maybe I'm missing something about your suggestion, but without
arguments, how would we tell the compiler the symbol name of the
additional alias we want for the definition?

Maybe, instead of no arguments, we could use something like:

  attribute (alias (..., "alt_sym_name"))

but I don't find that clearer, and I have a hunch that the
implementation would be significantly more convoluted.

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