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List:       linux-man
Subject:    Re: AW: [PATCH 2/2] ctime.3, strftime.3, strptime.3, timegm.3: Add [[gnu::nonnull]] to <time.h> prot
From:       Paul Eggert <eggert () cs ! ucla ! edu>
Date:       2021-10-21 17:40:12
Message-ID: d015464c-714d-771e-6829-c1032efab15d () cs ! ucla ! edu
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On 10/21/21 02:01, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) via Libc-alpha wrote:
> 10 EXAMPLE    In the declaration for an entity, attributes appertaining 
> to that entity may appear at the start of the declarationand after the 
> identifier for that declaration.
> 
>      [[deprecated]] void f [[deprecated]] (void); // valid
> 
> Forward references: declarators (6.7.6), enumeration specifiers 
> (6.7.2.2), initialization (6.7.9), typenames (6.7.7), type qualifiers 
> (6.7.3).
> ]
> 
> So we could put it in any of those 2 positions.  Is there any reason 
> that one is better (more readable / less ambiguous) than the other?  We 
> should decide very carefully which one to use.

"f (...)" is hardwired into people's brains for function calls, and we 
shouldn't put anything between the "f" and the "(" to confuse this 
longstanding syntactic pattern. So this stuff should go at the start of 
the declaration, not after the identifier.
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