A.22. More Portable and More Beautiful in One Fell Swoop

Let's face it, the _ _attribute_ _ syntax is not pretty. Some of the extensions we've looked at in this chapter essentially require preprocessor macros to make their use palatable, but all of them can benefit from a sprucing up in appearance.

With a little preprocessor magic, this is not hard. Further, in the same action, we can make the GCC extensions portable, by defining them away in the case of a non-GCC compiler (whatever that is).