Re: any value to "NORET_TYPE" macro?

[Krzysztof Halasa]

"Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Actually there's another thing :-) The __attribute__((xxx)) must go with the
> function _declarations_ (and not the implementations/definitions). I noticed
> after my previous mail that most of the double annotations are actually in
> the case of the _declarations_ of these non-returning functions, whereas
> most of the single-occurrences of NORET_TYPE were in the function
> definitions, which means your patch that simply got rid of NORET_TYPE
> actually ended up doing exactly the right thing that we wanted :-)

Only half of it. Half of right thing is (here) a bad thing.

NORET_TYPE does not do any harm.
Removing it removes pointers to attrib((noreturn)) candidates.
Simple.
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Krzysztof Halasa
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