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diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index 74c540a..a3854f3 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2007-09-20 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> + + * doc/extend.texi (Attribute Syntax): Remove old speculative + future direction. + 2007-09-20 Mark Shinwell <shinwell@codesourcery.com> * combine.c: Include cgraph.h. diff --git a/gcc/doc/extend.texi b/gcc/doc/extend.texi index 9f207cf..9be3c56 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/extend.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/extend.texi @@ -3136,25 +3136,11 @@ declared; the @code{format} attribute only applies to @code{d1}. An attribute specifier list may appear immediately before the comma, @code{=} or semicolon terminating the declaration of an identifier other -than a function definition. At present, such attribute specifiers apply -to the declared object or function, but in future they may attach to the -outermost adjacent declarator. In simple cases there is no difference, -but, for example, in - -@smallexample -void (****f)(void) __attribute__((noreturn)); -@end smallexample - -@noindent -at present the @code{noreturn} attribute applies to @code{f}, which -causes a warning since @code{f} is not a function, but in future it may -apply to the function @code{****f}. The precise semantics of what -attributes in such cases will apply to are not yet specified. Where an +than a function definition. Such attribute specifiers apply +to the declared object or function. Where an assembler name for an object or function is specified (@pxref{Asm -Labels}), at present the attribute must follow the @code{asm} -specification; in future, attributes before the @code{asm} specification -may apply to the adjacent declarator, and those after it to the declared -object or function. +Labels}), the attribute must follow the @code{asm} +specification. An attribute specifier list may, in future, be permitted to appear after the declarator in a function definition (before any old-style parameter |