> given that:
>
> $ grep -r "define.*NORET_TYPE" *
> include/linux/ext4_fs.h:# define NORET_TYPE /**/
> include/linux/linkage.h:#define NORET_TYPE /**/
> include/linux/ext3_fs.h:# define NORET_TYPE /**/
> $
>
> is there any obvious value to the 30 or so uses of that macro
> sprinkled throughout the tree?
Since it evaluates to absolutely empty code during pre-processing, there
is no obvious value. The question is whether there is some odd hackish
non-obvious value, I'd expect. (I'd also expect that to be another "no".)
If something that evaluates to nothingness ("There was nothing left...not
even a hole!") actually does anything, then somebody in the
standards-compilers-users pipeline needs to be violently beaten for
stupidity.
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