Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Transform old-style macros to newer "__noreturn" standard.

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

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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