[cfe-dev] Custom C++11 attributes in plugins/tools

[Aaron Ballman]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Kenneth Camann
<kjcamann.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Over the years I've seen several posts saying "we need to allow
> plugins/tools to be able to add custom C++11 attributes to the AST without
> needing to modify the in-tree Attr.td"
>
> IIRC, someone even had patches for this years ago, but I don't think they
> were ever merged. At least one other person (I think Sean Hunt?) was going
> to do the necessary work years ago. As far as I can tell, there is still no
> machinery for doing it. Is that still accurate? I am writing a few plugins
> now and would really like this.

Correct, there currently is not machinery for doing this, but there's
definitely a desire (it's been on my attribute TODO list for a while).

~Aaron