Re: probing for compiler attributes?

[Joshua Hoblitt]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 08:43:54PM -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> Ugh.  Don't do it like that.  Instead, write something like
> 
>   your-config-header.h:
>   --------------------
>   #ifdef __GNUC__
>   #define ATTR_MALLOC __attribute__((malloc))
>   #else
>   #define ATTR_MALLOC
>   #endif
> 
> and then in your code, just use
> 
>   #include "your-config-header.h"
>   ...
>   void *myfunc (char *myvar) ATTR_MALLOC;

The more I think about it the more I think this is a bad idea for
library code.  It certainly makes the code more tidy but doesn't this
end up screwing any application that tries to link against your code?  I
don't ever install config.h.

-J

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