Hello,
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is it such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
Please do NOT top-post/full-quote. Please read http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
In message dcf6addc0808060351t7b6cd18eqad06726375beaab4@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
I read u-boot 1.3.3 README and searched code generally, I guess the answermight be sad for me. Anyway, Could anyone double-check this thing?
Why should we spend efforts on doing so? We all have working GNU development environments.
It is you who wants to use some proprietary tool chain which is not available to us, you you are in the position to test this - we aren't.
README mentions that uboot uses some gcc feature, depends on some gccimplementation. There are many 'inline' found in uboot code, but no 'attribute' found as linux kernel.
You are wrong. __attribute__ is actually used a lot, for several purposes:
-> find * -type f | xargs egrep _attribute_ | wc -l 412
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk