On 2007.11.13 Lyndon Nerenberg pressed the following keys: >On 2007-Nov-12, at 11:39 , Steve Simon wrote:
>I find that > 90% of the problem is code that makes use of all the >__(foo)__ attribute crud in function declarations. It shouldn't be >difficult to write a tool to strip that nonsense out. > >Alternatively you could teach the compilers to recognize and ignore >those constructs, but my personal preference is to just elide the bits >from the source at import. Even ignoring them lends them more >credibility than my morals allow ;-P A lot of GNU/Linux packages utilize gcc attributes - maybe the cleaner way is to let decide the compiler what to use or to ignore. It seems less stressful as dropping an additional pre-processor in the build chain. >-lyndon HGN
