decl style question

decl style question

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

below is a frag from alloc.c not yet checked into the trunk that
effectively declares the global array `pure'.  this does the job but
seems ugly to me -- suggestions?

thi

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/* Force it into data space! */

#define PURE_BEF_ATTRS /* empty */
#define PURE_AFT_ATTRS /* empty */

#ifdef VMS
#ifdef __GNUC__
#undef PURE_AFT_ATTRS
#define PURE_AFT_ATTRS asm("_$PsectAttributes_NOOVR$$EMACSPURE")
#else /* not __GNUC__ */
#undef PURE_BEF_ATTRS
#define PURE_BEF_ATTRS globaldef {"EMACSPURE"}
#endif /* not __GNUC__ */
#endif /* VMS */

PURE_BEF_ATTRS
EMACS_INT pure[PURESIZE / sizeof (EMACS_INT)] PURE_AFT_ATTRS = {0,};