https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106712
--- Comment #3 from CVS Commits <cvs-commit at gcc dot gnu.org> --- The trunk branch has been updated by Marek Polacek <mpola...@gcc.gnu.org>: https://gcc.gnu.org/g:98973354b8690f01e06b9f36106e786fd94ac7a3 commit r13-2256-g98973354b8690f01e06b9f36106e786fd94ac7a3 Author: Marek Polacek <pola...@redhat.com> Date: Fri Aug 26 18:03:53 2022 -0400 c++: Fix C++11 attribute propagation [PR106712] When we have [[noreturn]] int fn1 [[nodiscard]](), fn2(); "noreturn" should apply to both fn1 and fn2 but "nodiscard" only to fn1: [dcl.pre]/3: "The attribute-specifier-seq appertains to each of the entities declared by the declarators of the init-declarator-list." [dcl.spec.general]: "The attribute-specifier-seq affects the type only for the declaration it appears in, not other declarations involving the same type." As Ed Catmur correctly analyzed, this is because, for the test above, we call start_decl with prefix_attributes=noreturn, but this line: attributes = attr_chainon (attributes, prefix_attributes); results in attributes == prefix_attributes, because chainon sees that attributes is null so it just returns prefix_attributes. Then in grokdeclarator we reach *attrlist = attr_chainon (*attrlist, declarator->std_attributes); which modifies prefix_attributes so now it's "noreturn, nodiscard" and so fn2 is wrongly marked nodiscard as well. Fixed by reversing the order of arguments to attr_chainon. That way, we tack the prefix attributes onto ->std_attributes, avoiding modifying prefix_attributes. PR c++/106712 gcc/cp/ChangeLog: * decl.cc (grokdeclarator): Reverse the order of arguments to attr_chainon. gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog: * g++.dg/cpp0x/gen-attrs-77.C: New test.