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Message-ID: <4658781D.5070108@zytor.com>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 11:10:37 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Transform old-style macros to newer "__noreturn"
standard.
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.
-hpa
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