Re: [doc PATCH] document variable attribute alias

2019-08-05 Thread Sandra Loosemore
On 8/5/19 4:43 PM, Martin Sebor wrote: On 8/4/19 9:45 PM, Sandra Loosemore wrote: [snip] OK with that fixed. Done in r274127. Since people tend to refer to the manual for older versions of the compiler I'd like to make this change on supported release branches as well.  If you see any proble

Re: [doc PATCH] document variable attribute alias

2019-08-05 Thread Martin Sebor
On 8/4/19 9:45 PM, Sandra Loosemore wrote: On 7/31/19 5:05 PM, Martin Sebor wrote: It was pointed out recently in another forum that GCC doesn't document attribute alias for variables.  It was also noted in the same discussion that the semantics of accessing aliases and their targets can have "s

Re: [doc PATCH] document variable attribute alias

2019-08-04 Thread Sandra Loosemore
On 7/31/19 5:05 PM, Martin Sebor wrote: It was pointed out recently in another forum that GCC doesn't document attribute alias for variables.  It was also noted in the same discussion that the semantics of accessing aliases and their targets can have "surprising" effects because GCC (as do other

[doc PATCH] document variable attribute alias

2019-07-31 Thread Martin Sebor
It was pointed out recently in another forum that GCC doesn't document attribute alias for variables. It was also noted in the same discussion that the semantics of accessing aliases and their targets can have "surprising" effects because GCC (as do other compilers) assumes that distinct declarat