Re: any value to "NORET_TYPE" macro?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

On Wed, 23 May 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:

> Actually there's another thing :-) The __attribute__((xxx)) must go
> with the function _declarations_ (and not the
> implementations/definitions).

that's not true, AFAICT.  the pattern seems to be that, in the case of
declarations, attributes go at the end, as in:

arch/sparc/boot/btfixupprep.c:void fatal(void) __attribute__((noreturn));

while in actual definitions, they typically go after the return type,
as in arch/arm/kernel/traps.c:

void __attribute__((noreturn)) __bug(const char *file, int line)
{
        printk(KERN_CRIT"kernel BUG at %s:%d!\n", file, line);
        *(int *)0 = 0;

        /* Avoid "noreturn function does return" */
        for (;;);
}

  is that the standard that most people use?  if it is, i can use that
standard for the cleanup.

rday

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