struct __attribute((packed));

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Dave Korn wrote:

>   I've often wished that __attribute__s would behave like CV-quals:

The syntax of attributes is documented in the Attribute Syntax section of 
the manual.

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Attribute-Syntax.html

Nested in pointer sequences they do act like cv-quals.  In amongst the 
declaration specifiers on a declaration they act like storage class 
specifiers, but a particular attribute's handler can make them act like 
cv-quals there as well if not constrained by compatibility with how 
previous versions of GCC implemented the attribute.  (See how this is done 
for vector_size attributes.)

The __section__ attribute is purely a storage-class-like attribute.  If 
you want DTR18037 address space specifiers, feel free to implement them; 
they are probably the least problematic part of that TR.

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