diff --git a/src/util/atrb.h b/src/util/atrb.h
index 512e9bf..9b672a4 100644
--- a/src/util/atrb.h
+++ b/src/util/atrb.h
@@ -57,13 +57,3 @@
 #define NONNULL(...)
 #endif
 #endif
-
-#define atrb_deprecated DEPRECATED
-#define atrb_used       USED
-#define atrb_unused     UNUSED
-#define atrb_pure       PURE
-#define atrb_const      CONST
-#define atrb_noreturn   NORET
-#define atrb_malloc     MALLOC
-#define atrb_format     FORMAT
-#define atrb_nonnull    NONNULL
diff --git a/src/util/conf.c b/src/util/conf.c
index cabca36..b2483a4 100644
--- a/src/util/conf.c
+++ b/src/util/conf.c
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ int conf_procval(struct conf_entry const *opt, char const *restrict val) {
 }
 
 /* utility function for conf_getpat to concatenate 3 strings, where we already know the size */
-atrb_nonnull(1, 3) static char *conf_getpat_concat(char const *restrict s1, char const *restrict s2, char const *restrict s3, size_t s1len, size_t s2len, size_t s3len) {
+NONNULL(1, 3) static char *conf_getpat_concat(char const *restrict s1, char const *restrict s2, char const *restrict s3, size_t s1len, size_t s2len, size_t s3len) {
 	assert(s2 || (!s2 && !s2len)); // ensuring the programmer passes both s2 and s2len as 0, if they intend to
 	char *buf, *ptr;
 
diff --git a/src/util/conf.h b/src/util/conf.h
index f70a72b..141ae2a 100644
--- a/src/util/conf.h
+++ b/src/util/conf.h
@@ -67,4 +67,4 @@ int conf_procval(struct conf_entry const *opts, const char *restrict val);
  * - windows: reads %APPDATA%, if empty %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming is used, if both are empty NULL is returned.
  * - osx:     reads $HOME, uses $HOME/Library/Application Support, if $HOME is empty NULL is returned.
  * !! A malloc'd null-terminated string is returned !! */
-atrb_malloc atrb_nonnull(1) char *conf_getpat(const char *);
+MALLOC NONNULL((1)) char *conf_getpat(const char *);