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Re: [std-proposals] unimplemented attribute

From: Hans Åberg <haberg_1_at_[hidden]>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 14:14:24 +0100
> On 19 Mar 2025, at 13:20, Andre Kostur <andre_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM Hans Åberg via Std-Proposals
> <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>>> On 19 Mar 2025, at 00:31, Marcin Jaczewski <marcinjaczewski86_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>>> If after how TU that use it know if you did that as there is NO info
>>> available for him now.
>>
>> What is “TU”?
>
> TU == Translation Unit. Essentially what the compiler sees after the
> preprocessor has done its thing over a cpp file.

I know what a translation unit is, since I once proposed it being mentioned in the standard as sentence symbol, which was rejected with the motivation that C++ does not have a formal grammar, but the language does not seem implementable without a sentence symbol even in the informal grammar descriptions that C++ has.

Received on 2025-03-19 13:14:44