Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 12:15:36 -0800 From: Farooq Mela <fmela0@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pthread_exit proto Message-ID: <3AA2A268.111D5261@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us> References: <3AA29546.7D709D6@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us> <20010304115811.Q8663@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Is '__dead2' a GNU C thing? or is in any sort of standard? See /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h __dead2 is defined to __attribute__((__noreturn__)) if a suitable version of GCC is being used. > Generally there's some resistance to putting GNU C specific > code into the base system, is there a portable way to do this? It's not actually gcc-specific code, its more of a hint to the compiler to not warn about something like, main() "falling off the end" when there is actually an exit(0); at the end of it. If GCC knows exit() never returns to its caller it doesnt warn. -- -farooq To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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