Re: [PATCH 7/10] compiler{,-gcc4}.h: Introduce __flatten functionattribute

[David Rientjes]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Josh Triplett wrote:

> That issue doesn't relate to __flatten, though; it only relates to
> __weak.  Since __flatten (and __compiletime_object_size) will work fine
> on 4.1.0 and 4.1.1, don't exclude them just because the definition for
> __weak elsewhere in the file excludes them.  That just makes it harder
> for anyone who might want to work on the issue with __weak.
> 

Nack to the patch since there are no users of it; there's no need to 
define every possible gcc function attribute.  If anything actually needs 
to use __attribute__((flatten)), then it can introduce it.
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