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<P><EM>This is an unofficial snapshot of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG21
  Core Issues List revision 118b.
  See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/ for the official
  list.</EM></P>
<P>2025-09-28</P>
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<A NAME="979"></A><H4>979.
  
Position of <I>attribute-specifier</I> in declarator syntax
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<B>Section: </B>9.3&#160; [<A href="https://wg21.link/dcl.decl">dcl.decl</A>]
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 <B>Status: </B>CD2
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 <B>Submitter: </B>Daveed Vandevoorde
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 <B>Date: </B>8 October, 2009<BR>




<P>In function, pointer, and pointer-to-member declarators, the
<I>attribute-specifier</I> appertains to the type being
declared, but the syntax has the
<I>attribute-specifier<SUB>opt</SUB></I> appearing before
the full type is seen &#8212; i.e., before the
<I>cv-qualifier-seq<SUB>opt</SUB></I> and, for the function case,
before the <I>ref-qualifier<SUB>opt</SUB></I>.  GNU attributes
appear after these elements (and, for the function case, after the
<I>exception-specification<SUB>opt</SUB></I> as well).  It would be
better, both logically and for consistency with existing practice,
to move the <I>attribute-specifier<SUB>opt</SUB></I> accordingly.</P>

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