[PATCH] attribute: keep up with gnulib-common.m4

[PATCH] attribute: keep up with gnulib-common.m4

[Paul Eggert]

* lib/attribute.h (ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC, ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC_FREE):
New macros, aliases for the _GL_-prefixed macros added
to gnulib-common.m4 last month.
---
 ChangeLog       | 7 +++++++
 lib/attribute.h | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index df3f0481f6..b86a6c33a7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2021-08-29  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+	attribute: keep up with gnulib-common.m4
+	* lib/attribute.h (ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC, ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC_FREE):
+	New macros, aliases for the _GL_-prefixed macros added
+	to gnulib-common.m4 last month.
+
 2021-08-29  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
 	supersede: Fix test failure under QEMU user-mode for Linux/mips.
diff --git a/lib/attribute.h b/lib/attribute.h
index 80a23f550c..26a5556557 100644
--- a/lib/attribute.h
+++ b/lib/attribute.h
@@ -76,6 +76,14 @@
 /* Applies to: function, pointer to function, function types.  */
 #define ATTRIBUTE_ALLOC_SIZE(args) _GL_ATTRIBUTE_ALLOC_SIZE (args)
 
+/* ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC (F, I) declares that the function returns pointers
+   that can be freed by passing them as the Ith argument to the
+   function F.
+   ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC_FREE declares that the function returns pointers that
+   can be freed via 'free'; it can be used only after including <stdlib.h>.  */
+/* Applies to: functions.  Cannot be used on inline functions.  */
+#define ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC(f, i) _GL_ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC(f, i)
+#define ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC_FREE _GL_ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC_FREE
 
 /* Attributes for variadic functions.  */
 
-- 
2.31.1