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-rw-r--r--lib/attribute.h8
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index df3f0481f6..b86a6c33a7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2021-08-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+ attribute: keep up with gnulib-common.m4
+ * lib/attribute.h (ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC, ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC_FREE):
+ New macros, aliases for the _GL_-prefixed macros added
+ to gnulib-common.m4 last month.
+
2021-08-29 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
supersede: Fix test failure under QEMU user-mode for Linux/mips.
diff --git a/lib/attribute.h b/lib/attribute.h
index 80a23f550c..26a5556557 100644
--- a/lib/attribute.h
+++ b/lib/attribute.h
@@ -76,6 +76,14 @@
/* Applies to: function, pointer to function, function types. */
#define ATTRIBUTE_ALLOC_SIZE(args) _GL_ATTRIBUTE_ALLOC_SIZE (args)
+/* ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC (F, I) declares that the function returns pointers
+ that can be freed by passing them as the Ith argument to the
+ function F.
+ ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC_FREE declares that the function returns pointers that
+ can be freed via 'free'; it can be used only after including <stdlib.h>. */
+/* Applies to: functions. Cannot be used on inline functions. */
+#define ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC(f, i) _GL_ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC(f, i)
+#define ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC_FREE _GL_ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC_FREE
/* Attributes for variadic functions. */