H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> It does not make sense for a noreturn function to have a return type >> other than void. >> ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ >> =============================================================== >> >> so I'm just going to stick with the pattern that's been used so far. >> i realize it offends your sense of syntactic sensibility, but it's >> just not worth treating that one attribute so differently from the >> rest of them. >> > > Why are you so hung up over the fact that the *implementation* of this > is an attribute? You're totally confusing interface and implementation. >
Perhaps I should clarify this: The whole reason to abstract this as a macro *at all* is to take it away from the specific implementation in gcc. Thus, implementing an inferior interface just because gcc happens to do it that way is actively counterproductive. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/