[cfe-dev] adding attribute bits to types

[Fariborz Jahanian]

On Aug 21, 2009, at 6:25 AM, Mattias Holm wrote:

> Mike Stump wrote:
>
>> You can put them into ExtQualType, if they have to be on the type.   
>> If
>> you see how they handle address spaces or the GC attributes, you just
>> copy those bits, and you're done.  The rest of the system works to
>> make what needs to happen, happen.  If you don't need them on the
>> type, they are already on the decl, just fetch the attributes from  
>> the
>> decl, see:
>
> Thanks, I did need to place the attributes in this case on the type  
> and
> it just "magically" started to work after I realized how the  
> ExtQualType
> actually worked. Thanks for pointing it out.
>

The tricky part for type attributes is to make sure that other  
attributes are retained when you
are adding a new type. There are several examples of that, including  
objc's __weak/__strong.

- fariborz

> / Mattias
>
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