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

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

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> Convert old/obsolete NORET_TYPE and ATTRIB_NORET macros to use the
> newer standard of "__noreturn" as defined in compiler-gcc.h.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>

> 1) in a function declaration, the "__noreturn" will go at the end of
> the declaration.
> 
> 2) in a definition, "__noreturn" will go between the return type and
> the function name
> 
> 3) in a function typedef, "__noreturn" will go immediately after the
> return type, just like with definitions.
> 
> 4) if a function definition already includes "__noreturn", there's no
> point in having any external references to it also say the same thing.
> (right?)

This is dumb, though.

"void __noreturn" is redundant.  It would be much cleaner to have a
macro which amounts to "void __attribute__((noreturn))" and use it
instead of giving a return type.

Even "void" as the return type is bogus -- the function never returns so
it doesn't *have* a return type...

	-hpa