>Submitter-Id: net
>Originator: Richard Kettlewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Organization: The Debian project
>Confidential: no
>Synopsis: function attributes should apply to function pointers too
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Category: c
>Class: change-request
>Release: 3.0 (Debian)
>Environment:
System: Debian GNU/Linux
Architecture: i386
host: i386-linux
build: i386-linux
target: i386-linux
configured with: ../src/configure -v
--enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,proto,objc --prefix=/usr
--infodir=/share/info --mandir=/share/man --enable-shared --with-gnu-as
--with-gnu-ld --with-system-zlib --enable-long-long --enable-nls
--without-included-gettext --disable-checking --enable-threads=posix
--enable-java-gc=boehm --with-cpp-install-dir=bin --enable-objc-gc i386-linux
>Description:
[Reported to the Debian BTS as report #55298.
Please CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] on replies.
Log of report can be found at http://bugs.debian.org/55298
]
Function attributes, such as `noreturn' and `format', should be
allowed to be specified for function pointers as well as real
functions.
lyonesse$ cat t.c
extern void (*error)(int, const char *, ...)
__attribute__((noreturn))
__attribute__((format(printf, 2, 3)));
$ gcc -c t.c
t.c:3: argument format specified for non-function `error'
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
