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

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

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> 
>   f() __attribute__((noreturn)) ;
> 
> you get:
> 
>   warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> 
> but gcc doesn't complain if you declare it thusly:
> 
>   __attribute__((noreturn)) f() ;
> 
> that strikes me as a flaw in gcc, no?
> 

Doesn't matter.  gcc accepts "void __attribute__((noreturn)) f();", and
thus, one can define:

#define __noreturn void __attribute__((noreturn))

... and declare functions as:

__noreturn f();

... which is the syntactially sane way of doing it.

	-hpa