On 05/03/2017 14:38, Alan Somers wrote:
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Alan Somers <asom...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 12:16 PM, Ngie Cooper <yaneurab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On May 3, 2017, at 10:21, Alan Somers <asom...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Author: asomers
>>>>> Date: Wed May  3 17:21:01 2017
>>>>> New Revision: 317755
>>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/317755
>>>>>
>>>>> Log:
>>>>>  Various Coverity fixes in ifconfig(8)
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>>  * Mark usage() as _Noreturn (1305806, 1305750)
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>> -static    void usage(void);
>>>>> +static    void usage(void) _Noreturn;
>>>>
>>>> Hi Alan,
>>>>     Please use __dead2 instead to be consistent with legacy use of similar 
>>>> gcc attributes.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> -Ngie
>>>
>>> Why not use _Noreturn?  It's standardized by C11, so tools understand
>>> it better than __dead2.
>>
>> Tools that can't understand #define __dead2 _Noreturn aren't worth 
>> supporting.
>>
>> Warner
> 
> Some tools don't expand preprocessor macros.  Like my editor, for
> example, which highlights _Noreturn as a keyword but not __dead2.

Please use _Noreturn, because it's standard.  sys/cdefs.h already
defines it appropriately for C < C11.

Eric
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