Hi,
Marcin Slusarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:17:38PM +0400, Alexander Beregalov wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> What is it a right way to fix these warnings?
>>
>> smth function()
>> {
>> switch (var) {
>> case one:
>> return 1;
>> default:
>> BUG();
>> }
>> }
>>
>> warning: control reaches end of non-void function
>
> If BUG() would be normal function it could be marked as
> __attribute__((noreturn)).
> But it's a macro defined differently depending on architecture and CONFIG_*.
> Sometimes it calls panic() which is annotated properly and sometimes it calls
> other code....
>
> If you are brave, you could fix all implementations.
And sometimes it calls nothing at all (!CONFIG_BUG). So even if you
mark the thing that _does_ something as noreturn, it will still emit
warnings then on !CONFIG_BUG.
Hannes
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