On Aug 14, 2007, at 6:27 PM, Andy Dougherty wrote:
see above. It would have been nice if gcc simply rejected the
attribute
so that testing the exit status of gcc would be sufficient. gcc-3.4
doesn't have this problem. The test could either be made to only work
for gcc > 3.3, or it could try parsing the gcc-3.3 warning output
(being
careful to handle localization issues appropriately, and avoiding
false
positives for unrelated warnings)
The attribute sniffer looks at the compiler's output and says if it
sees "warning" or "error", that the attribute must not work.
xoa
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