Re: [PATCH] Mark win32's pthread_exit() as NORETURN

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 02:53:04PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> The pthread_exit() function is not expected to return. Ever.
> 
> Pointed out by Jeff King.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
>  compat/win32/pthread.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/compat/win32/pthread.h b/compat/win32/pthread.h
> index 20b35a2..148db60 100644
> --- a/compat/win32/pthread.h
> +++ b/compat/win32/pthread.h
> @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ extern int win32_pthread_join(pthread_t *thread, void **value_ptr);
>  #define pthread_equal(t1, t2) ((t1).tid == (t2).tid)
>  extern pthread_t pthread_self(void);
>  
> -static inline int pthread_exit(void *ret)
> +static inline int NORETURN pthread_exit(void *ret)
>  {
>  	ExitThread((DWORD)(intptr_t)ret);
>  }

Looks obviously correct to me (I'll assume Windows isn't so crazy as to
let ExitThread ever return :) ).

-Peff
> -- 
> 2.7.2.windows.1.5.g64acc33