From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Transform old-style macros to newer "__noreturn" standard.
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 11:10:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4658781D.5070108@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705260924370.19438@localhost.localdomain>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-26 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-25 18:32 [PATCH] MIPS: Transform old-style macros to newer "__noreturn" standard Robert P. J. Day
2007-05-25 18:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-25 19:04 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-05-25 19:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-25 21:10 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-05-25 21:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-25 22:16 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-25 22:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-25 22:35 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-25 22:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-25 22:56 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-26 13:33 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-05-26 18:10 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-26 23:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
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