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The preceding comment indicates that the intent is to support other compilers. I think a better approach is to define __glibc_attribute__ based on compiler supp

The preceding comment indicates that the intent is to support other compilers. I think a better approach is to define __glibc_attribute__ based on compiler support and to stick to that within glibc since there's no reason to think that another compiler's attributes have the same semantics as GNU C's.

rurban 5mo ago
That ship sailed already. You simply have to mimic gcc. Which is at least better than with MSVC, where they did everything differently, and only half of it.
- account42 5mo ago
  Well in practice you have to mimic GCC except for Windows where you have to mimic MSVC.
  - rurban 5mo ago
    Not really. MSVC is too broken. I just mimic x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc, which exists everywhere.