to that declaration (which may be nested in another declaration, for
example in the case of a parameter declaration). In future, attribute
specifiers in some places may however apply to a particular declarator
-within a declaration instead; these cases are noted below.
+within a declaration instead; these cases are noted below. Where an
+attribute specifier is applied to a parameter declared as a function or
+an array, it should apply to the function or array rather than the
+pointer to which the parameter is implicitly converted, but this is not
+yet correctly implemented.
Any list of specifiers and qualifiers at the start of a declaration may
contain attribute specifiers, whether or not such a list may in that
the declarator in a function definition (before any old-style parameter
declarations or the function body).
+Attribute specifiers may be mixed with type qualifiers appearing inside
+the @code{[]} of a parameter array declarator, in the C99 construct by
+which such qualifiers are applied to the pointer to which the array is
+implicitly converted. Such attribute specifiers apply to the pointer,
+not to the array, but at present this is not implemented and they are
+ignored.
+
An attribute specifier list may appear at the start of a nested
declarator. At present, there are some limitations in this usage: the
attributes apply to the identifer declared, and to all subsequent
function or variable, this feature allows you to define names for the
linker that do not start with an underscore.
+It does not make sense to use this feature with a non-static local
+variable since such variables do not have assembler names. If you are
+trying to put the variable in a particular register, see @ref{Explicit
+Reg Vars}. GCC presently accepts such code with a warning, but will
+probably be changed to issue an error, rather than a warning, in the
+future.
+
You cannot use @code{asm} in this way in a function @emph{definition}; but
you can get the same effect by writing a declaration for the function
before its definition and putting @code{asm} there, like this:
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