Re: attribute: add comments

[Paul Eggert]

On 5/9/20 8:46 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:

> The text I wrote is meant be easier to understand upon first use, but
> still as correct (or nearly as correct) as the corresponding GCC 
> documentation.

Thanks, that's a good idea and makes attribute.h easier to use. I went through
the comments and tweaked them in a way that I hope makes them even clearer.

> Btw, why is there 'ATTRIBUTE_DEPRECATED', when there is also 'DEPRECATED',
> defined in the same file and with the same definition?

That's an oversight; I didn't notice the duplication. Thanks for mentioning it.

I installed the attached patch to implement the above.

0001-attribute-remove-ATTRIBUTE_DEPRECATED.patch
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