-#ifndef __attribute__
-/* This feature is available in gcc versions 2.5 and later. */
-# if __GNUC__ < 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 5) || __STRICT_ANSI__
-# define __attribute__(Spec) /* empty */
-# endif
-/* The __-protected variants of `format' and `printf' attributes
- are accepted by gcc versions 2.6.4 (effectively 2.7) and later. */
-# if __GNUC__ < 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 7)
-# define __format__ format
-# define __printf__ printf
-# endif
+/* The __attribute__ feature is available in gcc versions 2.5 and later.
+ The __-protected variants of the attributes 'format' and 'printf' are
+ accepted by gcc versions 2.6.4 (effectively 2.7) and later.
+ We enable _GL_ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT only if these are supported too, because
+ gnulib and libintl do '#define printf __printf__' when they override
+ the 'printf' function. */
+#if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 7)
+# define _GL_ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT(spec) __attribute__ ((__format__ spec))
+#else
+# define _GL_ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT(spec) /* empty */