linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] bpf.2: Use standard types and attributes

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Date:   Mon, 26 Apr 2021 19:46:48 +0200
From:   "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@...il.com>
To:     Joseph Myers <joseph@...esourcery.com>
Cc:     mtk.manpages@...il.com, linux-man@...r.kernel.org,
        gcc-patches@....gnu.org, libc-alpha@...rceware.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] bpf.2: Use standard types and attributes

Hi Joseph,

On 4/26/21 7:19 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> 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.
> 

Agree.

I just didn't know 'alignas()' (a.k.a. '_Alignas()'), so I used 
attributes and only changed the syntax.  But yes, we should use that C11 
feature.  Given that we already used 'noreturn' and not '_Noreturn' (see 
exit(3) and its family), I'll use 'alignas()'.

I'll send a v2 with those changes.

Thanks,

Alex

-- 
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/