On 2017.10.11 at 09:39 +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 08:24:28AM +0200, Martin Liška wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > This changes error to a warning:
> > warning: ‘foobar’ attribute directive ignored [-Wattributes]
> >
> > Patch can bootstrap on ppc64le-redhat-linux and survives regression tests.
>
> What is the rationale for not warning? LLVM compatibility?
> I think in some cases it would be nice to find out that I wrote a typo...
The patch does warn. But yes, not erroring out improves LLVM
compatibility. Chromium uses __attribute__(no_sanitize("function")) for
example.
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Markus
