https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=93008
--- Comment #4 from Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Jonathan Wakely from comment #3) > (In reply to Eric Gallager from comment #2) > > I would prefer this second approach. > > The downside of it is that it requires adding a keyword that the standard > says is completely redundant, in order to get compiler-specific behaviour. > It's not clear why it's there, or if it's OK to remove it. > > A compiler-specific attribute obviously has compiler-specific effects. As someone who likes redundancy when it's done for the benefit of explicitness, I don't necessarily see that as a downside.
