[cmake-developers] [CMake 0015332]: Feature request for giving CMake the ability to define C++11 generic attributes.

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15332 
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Reported By:                Ezekiel Warren
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   15332
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            N/A
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2015-01-01 20:45 EST
Last Modified:              2015-01-01 20:45 EST
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Summary:                    Feature request for giving CMake the ability to
define C++11 generic attributes.
Description: 
The proposed feature would allow developers to define generic attributes so that
a CMake script may be ran at build time when they are encountered.

A possible syntax could be similar to functions. Additionally with variables
defined within function-like scope that hold information on the attribute.  

attribute(<name> [arg1 [arg2 [arg3 ...]]])
  
  ${ATTRIBUTE_TYPE} # could be "class", "function", "namespace", etc. 
  
endattribute(<name>)

Compilers such as gcc give the ability to write plugins that could be used to
implement this feature. Other compilers may have other ways to accomplish this,
but if a compiler doesn't there could be a fail safe that would require CMake to
parse the code itself (not ideal.)

I'm not sure if such a feature falls in CMake's scope of responsibilities, but I
thought I'd get some feedback.
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Issue History 
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2015-01-01 20:45 Ezekiel Warren New Issue                                    
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