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Thanks for the review! I'll write a C++ test tomorrow.



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Comment at: include/clang/Basic/Attr.td:1072
 def AllocSize : InheritableAttr {
   let Spellings = [GCC<"alloc_size">];
+  let Subjects = SubjectList<[HasFunctionProto]>;
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aaron.ballman wrote:
> arichardson wrote:
> > aaron.ballman wrote:
> > > Does GCC support writing `alloc_size` on function pointers?
> > Yes it does and it seems to be used by some projects. I first discovered 
> > this while compiling libxml2: 
> > https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/blob/35e83488505d501864826125cfe6a7950d6cba78/include/libxml/xmlmemory.h#L66
> Parsed and ignored is different than supported. For instance, I can't seem to 
> get GCC to produce different behavior here: https://godbolt.org/z/MI5k_m
> 
> Am I missing something?
Ah yes, it does seem like it is ignored. I assumed it would work for GCC since 
it handles, e.g. the format attribute on function pointers.

However, I would like it if we could support it on function pointers even if 
GCC just ignores is.


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