[cfe-dev] GNU attributes in lambda expressions?

[Eric Christopher]

On Jun 5, 2012, at 5:06 PM, "Sharlet, Dillon" <dillon.sharlet at intel.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>  
> First of all, thank you all very much for implementing lambda expressions in Clang 3.1! This is a much anticipated feature and I greatly appreciate the work to implement this.
>  
> I have a small suggestion for lambdas expressions: How about supporting GNU attributes (__attribute__) in the attribute list of a lambda expression? I’m no clang ninja so I can’t say if what I did is stable/solid, but I was able to add the support I needed for this pretty easily using the handy ParseGNUAttributes function. The lambda parser already parses some attributes, so maybe this is simply an accidental omission?
>  

It's not impossible... but why?

-eric