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Implement C11 DR#423 resolution (ignore function return type qualifiers). · aa4b467b
The resolution of C11 DR#423, apart from doing things with the types of expressions cast to qualified types which are only in standard terms observable with _Generic and which agree with how GCC has implemented _Generic all along, also specifies that qualifiers are discarded from function return types: "derived-declarator-type-list function returning T" becomes "derived-declarator-type-list function returning the unqualified version of T" in the rules giving types for function declarators. This means that declarations of a function with both qualified and unqualified return types are now compatible, similar to how different declarations can vary in whether a function argument is declared with a qualifier or unqualified type. This patch implements this resolution. Since the motivation for the change was _Generic, the resolution is restricted to C11 mode; there's no reason to consider there to be a defect in this regard in older standard versions. Some less-obvious issues are handled as follows: * As usual, and as with function arguments, _Atomic is not considered a qualifier for this purpose; that is, function declarations must agree regarding whether the return type is atomic. * By 6.9.1#2, a function definition cannot return qualified void. But with this change, specifying "const void" in the declaration produces the type "function returning void", which is perfectly valid, so "const void f (void) {}" is no longer an error. * The application to restrict is less clear. The way I am interpreting it in this patch is that "unqualified version of T" is not valid if T is not valid, as in the case where T is a restrict-qualified version of a type that cannot be restrict qualified (non-pointer, or pointer-to-function). But it's possible to argue the other way from the wording. Bootstrapped with no regressions on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu. gcc/c: * c-decl.c (grokdeclarator): For C11, discard qualifiers on function return type. gcc/testsuite: * gcc.dg/qual-return-5.c, gcc.dg/qual-return-6.c: New tests. * gcc.dg/call-diag-2.c, gcc.dg/qual-return-2.c , gcc.dg/qual-return-3.c, gcc.dg/qual-return-4.c: Use -std=gnu99. From-SVN: r236231
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