https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84303
Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords| |diagnostic Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Last reconfirmed| |2018-02-15 CC| |msebor at gcc dot gnu.org Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #1 from Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> --- I'll confirm this. I would suggest to consider adopting the convention used by other back ends (e.g, mips or i386) for spelling attribute target: "attribute %<target%>" (i.e., the word attribute is not quoted but the keyword target is), and/or for attributes in general used by the middle-end ("%<name%> attribute"). This convention is helpful because there are at least two ways of spelling an attribute in user code, depending on the language: __attribute__ ((target)) in both C and C++ [[gnu::target]] in C++ C hasn't adopted the C++ syntax but a proposal for including it in C2X has been submitted and favorably received. At the same time, some people on the C committee have been arguing for alternate syntax along the lines of _Attribute (target) If this were to adopted (either in favor of the C++ notation or in addition to it), there would be three different ways to spell the same thing. Unless GCC can determine and use what appears in the source code using a generic spelling is less confusing or misleading.