linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 14/14] kernel/exit.c and kernel/panic.c: Remove unused NORET

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Date:	Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:51:55 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/14] kernel/exit.c and kernel/panic.c: Remove unused
 NORET_TYPE

On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 00:09 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> Make the functions match the prototypes in <linux/kernel.h>
> It's defined to nothing and useless

Uhm, why not make it useful again and define it to something like:

#define NORET_TYPE __attribute__((noreturn))

except I guess that should come after the function name, not before.

Annotations that tell a particular function is not supposed to exit
seems useful to me..


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