Intentional or accidental backward-incompatibility w.r.t. process attributes?

[Thorsten Glaser]

NightStrike <nightstrike <at> gmail.com> writes:

> > ... used to work, with the attribute from the declaration being applied also
> > to the definition.

I stumbled upon this as well recently.

> Someone else just asked not too long ago:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2013-03/msg00012.html

Yes, but there’s no solution to the question of whether this was
deliberate (and, if so, why).

bye,
//mirabilos