Joseph S. Myers wrote:
I was referring to the change in extend.texi
-the closing brace. It is ignored if the content of the structure, union
-or enumerated type is not defined in the specifier in which the
-attribute specifier list is used---that is, in usages such as
[EMAIL PROTECTED] __attribute__((foo)) bar} with no following opening brace.
+the closing brace. The former syntax is preferred.
That passage has nothing to do with typedefs. The change is that
previously, if we saw
class __attribute ((visibility (hidden))) C;
we would ignore the attribute, now we record it.
My change to the previous paragraph now seems excessive, however:
-You may specify the @code{aligned} and @code{transparent_union}
-attributes either in a @code{typedef} declaration or just past the
-closing curly brace of a complete enum, struct or union type
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and the @code{packed} attribute only past the closing
-brace of a definition.
+You may specify type attributes either in a @code{typedef} declaration
+or in an enum, struct or union type declaration or definition.
I didn't notice the distinction this passage was trying to make between
packed and other attributes, just that it was an incomplete list. In
removing the incomplete list I also removed the useful separation.
Jason
