broken attributes

[Eric Blake]

The following grep shows a number of places where newlib is improperly
using __attribute__ markups without decorating the attribute with __ to
ensure that there are no collisions with user-defined macros.

$ find -name '*.h' |xargs grep -i 'attribute.*(([a-z]'

For an example of the type of bugs this causes, try compiling this valid
C11 program (it's valid because 'noreturn' is reserved for use in the
user namespace unless you include <stdnoreturn.h>):

$ cat foo.c
#define noreturn __attribute__((noreturn))
#include <stdlib.h>
$ gcc -c -o foo.o -Wall foo.c
In file included from /usr/include/stdlib.h:11:0,
                 from foo.c:2:
foo.c:1:18: error: expected ')' before '__attribute__'
 #define noreturn __attribute__((noreturn))
                  ^
/usr/include/stdlib.h:66:28: error: expected ',' or ';' before ')' token
 _VOID _EXFUN(abort,(_VOID) _ATTRIBUTE ((noreturn)));
                            ^
...

I'm preparing an obvious patch of decorating all these offenders with __

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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