I often see something like attribute in error messages. What is this? Are there any similar things like this attribute? Can anyone give me a detailed explanation?
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I often see something like attribute in error messages. What is this? Are there any similar things like this attribute? Can anyone give me a detailed explanation?
It is a GCC extension which allows a developer to attach characteristics to function declarations to allow the compiler to perform more error checking.
Detailed Explanation also found here and here. A set of GCC extensions for C can be found here.