Don't interfere with a program's definition of __attribute__.

[gnulib.git] / lib / error.h

diff --git a/lib/error.h b/lib/error.h
index 9a2a566..80f81bc 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/error.h
+++ b/lib/error.h
@@ -19,16 +19,16 @@
 #ifndef _ERROR_H
 #define _ERROR_H 1
 
-#ifndef __attribute__
 /* 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 __attribute__ only if these are supported too, because
+   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 __attribute__(Spec)   /* empty */
-# endif
+#if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 7)
+# define _GL_ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT(spec) __attribute__ ((__format__ spec))
+#else
+# define _GL_ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT(spec) /* empty */
 #endif
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@ extern "C" {
    If STATUS is nonzero, terminate the program with `exit (STATUS)'.  */
 
 extern void error (int __status, int __errnum, const char *__format, ...)
-     __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, 3, 4)));
+     _GL_ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT ((__printf__, 3, 4));
 
 extern void error_at_line (int __status, int __errnum, const char *__fname,
                            unsigned int __lineno, const char *__format, ...)
-     __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, 5, 6)));
+     _GL_ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT ((__printf__, 5, 6));
 
 /* If NULL, error will flush stdout, then print on stderr the program
    name, a colon and a space.  Otherwise, error will call this