On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:34:27PM +0100, Philip Oakley wrote:

> It's not the __attribute__ definition (a Gnu C ism), rather its the
> __attribute variant, which has a definition in regex_internal.h, and is used
> in the regex code. It's that one that's used in remote.c that I can't fathom
> (i.e. how it worked in normally)
> 
> regex_internal.h#L160-164
> #ifdef __GNUC__
> # define __attribute(arg) __attribute__ (arg)
> #else
> # define __attribute(arg)
> #endif
> 
> thus when the compilation get to remote.c#L1662 it fails to find that
> definition.
> 
> Should that line use the gnu extension name?

Yeah, sorry, see my followup response. We don't use "__attribute" at
all ourselves. The reference you found is in compat code that we pulled
in (so it does its own thing entirely), and the one in remote.c is just
a typo/think-o that happened to work on gcc, et al.

-Peff
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