https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84303
Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Keywords| |diagnostic
Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW
Last reconfirmed| |2018-02-15
CC| |msebor at gcc dot gnu.org
Ever confirmed|0 |1
--- Comment #1 from Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
I'll confirm this.
I would suggest to consider adopting the convention used by other back ends
(e.g, mips or i386) for spelling attribute target: "attribute %<target%>"
(i.e., the word attribute is not quoted but the keyword target is), and/or for
attributes in general used by the middle-end ("%<name%> attribute").
This convention is helpful because there are at least two ways of spelling an
attribute in user code, depending on the language:
__attribute__ ((target)) in both C and C++
[[gnu::target]] in C++
C hasn't adopted the C++ syntax but a proposal for including it in C2X has been
submitted and favorably received. At the same time, some people on the C
committee have been arguing for alternate syntax along the lines of
_Attribute (target)
If this were to adopted (either in favor of the C++ notation or in addition to
it), there would be three different ways to spell the same thing.
Unless GCC can determine and use what appears in the source code using a
generic spelling is less confusing or misleading.
