A user reported an issue to me via email that Clang was accepting some
code that GCC was rejecting. After investigation, it turned out to be a
general problem of us failing to properly reject attributes written in
the type position in C when they don't apply to types. The root cause
was a terminology issue -- we sometimes use "CXX11Attr" to mean [[]] in
C++11 mode and sometimes [[]] in general -- and this came back to bite
us because in this particular case, it really meant [[]] in C++ mode.
I fixed the issue by introducing a new function
AttributeCommonInfo::isStandardAttributeSyntax() to represent [[]] in
either C or C++ mode.
This fix pointed out that we've had the issue in some of our existing
tests, which have all been corrected. This resolves
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50954.
These proposals make the same changes to both C++ and C and remove a
restriction on standard attributes appearing multiple times in the same
attribute list.
We could warn on the duplicate attributes, but do not. This is for
consistency as we do not warn on attributes duplicated within the
attribute specifier sequence. If we want to warn on duplicated
standard attributes, we should do so both for both situations:
[[foo, foo]] and [[foo]][[foo]].
Clang currently has a bug where it allows you to write [[foo bar]] and
both attributes are silently accepted. This patch corrects the comma
parsing rules for such attributes and handles the test case fallout, as
a few tests were accidentally doing this.
Aaron Ballman