Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Apr 2021 17:19:07 +0000 | From | Joseph Myers <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] bpf.2: Use standard types and attributes |
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On Sat, 24 Apr 2021, Alejandro Colomar via Libc-alpha wrote:
> Some pages also document attributes, using GNU syntax > '__attribute__((xxx))'. Update those to use the shorter and more > portable C2x syntax, which hasn't been standardized yet, but is > already implemented in GCC, and available through either --std=c2x > or any of the --std=gnu... options.
If you mention alignment in the manpage at all, the same reasoning would say you should use _Alignas(8) not [[gnu::aligned(8)]], in any context where _Alignas is valid.
-- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
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