Re: any value to "NORET_TYPE" macro?

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

On Tue, 22 May 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:09:22AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   given that:
> >
> > $ grep -r "define.*NORET_TYPE" *
> > include/linux/ext4_fs.h:# define NORET_TYPE    /**/
> > include/linux/linkage.h:#define NORET_TYPE    /**/
> > include/linux/ext3_fs.h:# define NORET_TYPE    /**/
> > $
> >
> > is there any obvious value to the 30 or so uses of that macro
> > sprinkled throughout the tree?
>
> I can be mistaken, but it seems the uses should be replaced with your
> __noreturn

no, i think you're thinking of the alternative ATTRIB_NORET macro.
as you can read in my previous post, NORET_TYPE used to resolve to
"__volatile__" for very old gcc.  so i think it's legitimately dead
and can be ripped out.

rday
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