[PATCH] Generalized attribute support

[Aaron Ballman]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:50 PM, Richard Smith <richard at metafoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Richard Smith <richard at metafoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Alp Toker <alp at nuanti.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> This patch generalizes C++11 attributes for use in C and C-like dialects,
>>> and additionally enables the new syntax as an extension to C11.
>>
>>
>> Why do you allow this by default in C11? And conversely, why not in C90 /
>> C99?
>
>
> I think maybe this was unclear. I'd prefer one of these two options:
>
> 1) A -fcxx-attributes argument (or similar) to enable C++ attribute syntax
> outside C++ (and either do or don't allow them by default in C++98), or
> 2) C++ attributes available by default in all language modes.
>
> I'd prefer the first option (defaulting to following the language standard
> more strictly) -- I think this would be the first time we enabled a C++
> language feature in C modes, if we went with the second option.

I'm in agreement that the first option is my preference as well.

~Aaron