Re: probing for compiler attributes?

[Benoit SIGOURE]

On Aug 7, 2007, at 11:49 PM, Joshua Hoblitt wrote:

Is there a pre-canned AC macro or other reliable means of testing for
compiler attributes?

I have an awful lot of code that looks something like this:

        void *myfunc(char *myvar
        #ifdef __GNUC__
        ) __attribute__((malloc));
        # else // ifdef __GNUC__
        );
        #endif // ifdef __GNUC__


for what version of GNUC we have to use a new attribute.  While I

be nice to have this information available from config.h.

and it has to the potential to get a lot worse if I have to start testing realize this could all be done with CPP macros it occurred to me it would

Hi,

http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/macros-by-category.html
search for `attribute'.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

--
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

The (unofficial) autoconf macro archive has a couple of macros to test some of these, see:

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