------- Additional Comments From jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk 2004-10-01 23:29 ------- Subject: Re: Visibility attribute ignored when it precedes class head
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, austern at apple dot com wrote: > I hesitate to call this "behaves correctly", since this behavior is > unexpected, hard to understand, and leads to the user silently not > getting what they expected. I'm afraid that with visibility, in > particular, it'll lead to problems because users will want to hide this > attribute list behind macros that expand to different things on > different platforms. But I'm also not completely sure what the best > thing to do is. It is at least documented to some extent ("Attribute Syntax"), although with a warning that C++ may vary from C. > 2. If cp_parser_simple_declaration collects attributes in > cp_parser_decl_specifier_seq and it's throwing them away because there's > no declarator to apply them to, then warn the user and suggest a better > place to put the attribute list. FWIW, I've been considering such a warning for C, to go along with the warnings for useless type qualifiers and storage class specifiers on empty declarations. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17542