linux-kernel - Re: any value to "NORET

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Date:	Thu, 24 May 2007 09:25:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
cc:	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: any value to "NORET_TYPE" macro?

On Thu, 24 May 2007, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:

> "Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@...il.com> 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.

everybody take a valium -- i asked andrew to drop that patch from the
mm-tree until i get the time to go back and take a closer look.

rday
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