RFC: Deprecate (a little bit) of C++ attribute syntax

[Mark Mitchell]

--On Wednesday, August 14, 2002 02:08:17 AM +0200 Gabriel Dos Reis 
<gdr@integrable-solutions.net> wrote:

Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:

| Currently, the C++ front end accepts this syntax:
|
|   int x (3) __attribute__((unused));

[...]

| Therefore, I'm proposing deprecating this syntax in GCC 3.3 and
| removing it in GCC 3.4 (with the new parser).

|  I'm not sure if I can
| get the old parser to actually warn about this (it's confused and
| thinks the parenthesized initializer is part of the declarator, but
| there is then later magic to untangle that!)

Do you think it is the same reason why it seems to ignore
attributes for nested typedef-names? I.e. in

   struct A {
      struct X { } __attribute__((__aligned__(4)));
      typedef struct { } Y __attribute__((__aligned__(4)));
   };