Am 01.03.2016 um 15:13 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:
The pthread_exit() function is not expected to return. Ever. On Windows,
we call ExitThread() whose documentation claims: "This function does not
return a value.":

        https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682659

This is misleading: MSDN marks all functions declared void as "does not return a value," for example, look at EnterCriticalSection:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682608

For this reason, I actually prefer your version 1 patch without the explanation.


Pointed out by Jeff King.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de>
---

        Relative to v1, only the commit message changed (to clarify that
        ExitThread() indeed never returns).

  compat/win32/pthread.h | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/compat/win32/pthread.h b/compat/win32/pthread.h
index 20b35a2..148db60 100644
--- a/compat/win32/pthread.h
+++ b/compat/win32/pthread.h
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ extern int win32_pthread_join(pthread_t *thread, void 
**value_ptr);
  #define pthread_equal(t1, t2) ((t1).tid == (t2).tid)
  extern pthread_t pthread_self(void);

-static inline int pthread_exit(void *ret)
+static inline int NORETURN pthread_exit(void *ret)

I would have written it as

#ifdef __GNUC__
__attribute__((__noreturn__))
#endif
static inline int pthread_exit(void *ret) ...

but I can live with your version as long as it compiles.

Your solution is pragmatic: NORETURN is defined in git-compat-util.h, and by using it here, we depend on that pthread.h is included sufficiently late that the macro is available at this point. The instance in compat/nedmalloc/malloc.c.h is bracketed with #ifndef WIN32 so that it is not compiled on Windows, all other instances are after git-compat-util.h or cache.h or in headers that are to be included only after git-compat-util.h or cache.h per convention. Looks like we are safe.

  {
        ExitThread((DWORD)(intptr_t)ret);
  }


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