I believe the missing action here is a bug.
For rules with no explicit action, the following default is used:
{ $$ = $1; }
However, in this case, $1 is the value of attribute_opt itself. As a
result, the value of attribute_opt is always NULL.
The following test code demonstrates inconsistent behavior.
int x __attribute__((__aligned__(4)));
int y __attribute__((__aligned__(4))) = 0;
The attribute is recorded only when followed by an initializer.
This commit adds the correct action to propagate the value of the
ATTRIBUTE_PHRASE token.
With this change, the attribute in the example above is consistently
recorded for both 'x' and 'y'.
[Before]
$ cat <<EOF | scripts/genksyms/genksyms -d
int x __attribute__((__aligned__(4)));
int y __attribute__((__aligned__(4))) = 0;
EOF
Defn for type0 x == <int x >
Defn for type0 y == <int y __attribute__ ( ( __aligned__ ( 4 ) ) ) >
Hash table occupancy 2/4096 = 0.
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[After]
$ cat <<EOF | scripts/genksyms/genksyms -d
int x __attribute__((__aligned__(4)));
int y __attribute__((__aligned__(4))) = 0;
EOF
Defn for type0 x == <int x __attribute__ ( ( __aligned__ ( 4 ) ) ) >
Defn for type0 y == <int y __attribute__ ( ( __aligned__ ( 4 ) ) ) >
Hash table occupancy 2/4096 = 0.
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Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>