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See <a href="Attribute-Syntax.html#Attribute-Syntax">Attribute Syntax</a>, +for details of the exact syntax for using attributes. Other attributes are +available for functions (see <a href="Function-Attributes.html#Function-Attributes">Function Attributes</a>), variables +(see <a href="Variable-Attributes.html#Variable-Attributes">Variable Attributes</a>), labels (see <a href="Label-Attributes.html#Label-Attributes">Label Attributes</a>), enumerators +(see <a href="Enumerator-Attributes.html#Enumerator-Attributes">Enumerator Attributes</a>), and for types (see <a href="Type-Attributes.html#Type-Attributes">Type Attributes</a>). +</p> +<dl compact="compact"> +<dd><a name="index-fallthrough-statement-attribute"></a> +</dd> +<dt><code>fallthrough</code></dt> +<dd><p>The <code>fallthrough</code> attribute with a null statement serves as a +fallthrough statement. It hints to the compiler that a statement +that falls through to another case label, or user-defined label +in a switch statement is intentional and thus the +<samp>-Wimplicit-fallthrough</samp> warning must not trigger. The +fallthrough attribute may appear at most once in each attribute +list, and may not be mixed with other attributes. It can only +be used in a switch statement (the compiler will issue an error +otherwise), after a preceding statement and before a logically +succeeding case label, or user-defined label. +</p> +<p>This example uses the <code>fallthrough</code> statement attribute to indicate that +the <samp>-Wimplicit-fallthrough</samp> warning should not be emitted: +</p> +<div class="smallexample"> +<pre class="smallexample">switch (cond) + { + case 1: + bar (1); + __attribute__((fallthrough)); + case 2: + … + } +</pre></div> + +<a name="index-assume-statement-attribute"></a> +</dd> +<dt><code>assume</code></dt> +<dd><p>The <code>assume</code> attribute with a null statement serves as portable +assumption. It should have a single argument, a conditional expression, +which is not evaluated. If the argument would evaluate to true +at the point where it appears, it has no effect, otherwise there +is undefined behavior. This is a GNU variant of the ISO C++23 +standard <code>assume</code> attribute, but it can be used in any version of +both C and C++. +</p> +<div class="smallexample"> +<pre class="smallexample">int +foo (int x, int y) +{ + __attribute__((assume(x == 42))); + __attribute__((assume(++y == 43))); + return x + y; +} +</pre></div> + +<p><code>y</code> is not actually incremented and the compiler can but does not +have to optimize it to just <code>return 42 + 42;</code>. +</p> +</dd> +</dl> + +<hr> +<div class="header"> +<p> +Next: <a href="Attribute-Syntax.html#Attribute-Syntax" accesskey="n" rel="next">Attribute Syntax</a>, Previous: <a href="Enumerator-Attributes.html#Enumerator-Attributes" accesskey="p" rel="previous">Enumerator Attributes</a>, Up: <a href="C-Extensions.html#C-Extensions" accesskey="u" rel="up">C Extensions</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Indices.html#Indices" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> +</div> + + + +</body> +</html> |