The pthread_exit() function is not expected to return. Ever. On Windows, we call ExitThread() whose documentation claims: "This function does not return a value.": https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682659 Pointed out by Jeff King. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- Relative to v1, only the commit message changed (to clarify that ExitThread() indeed never returns). 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); } -- 2.7.2.windows.1.5.g64acc33 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html