On Tue, 21 Jan 2025, Qing Zhao wrote: > > On Jan 20, 2025, at 16:19, Joseph Myers <josmy...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 18 Jan 2025, Kees Cook wrote: > > > >> Gaining access to global variables is another gap Linux has -- e.g. we > >> have arrays that are sized by the global number-of-cpus variable. :) > > > > Note that it's already defined that counted_by takes an identifier for a > > structure member (i.e. not an expression, not following the name lookup > > rules used in expressions). So some different syntax that only takes an > > expression and not an identifier interpreted as a structure member would > > be needed for anything that allows use of a global variable. > > If we need to add such syntax for counted_by (I,e, an expresson), can we > still keep the same attribute > Name, all we need a new attribute name for the new syntax?
If you want a different syntax that's potentially incompatible or ambiguous with cases currently accepted, that would indicate having a new attribute name for the new syntax. -- Joseph S. Myers josmy...@redhat.com
