The pthread_exit() function is not expected to return. Ever. On Windows, we call ExitThread() whose documentation claims: "Ends the calling thread", i.e. there is no condition in which this function simply returns: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682659 While at it, fix the return type to be void, as per http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/pthread_exit.html Pointed out by Jeff King, helped by Stefan Naewe, Junio Hamano & Johannes Sixt. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- compat/win32/pthread.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Interdiff vs v2: diff --git a/compat/win32/pthread.h b/compat/win32/pthread.h index 148db60..b6ed9e7 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 NORETURN pthread_exit(void *ret) +static inline void NORETURN pthread_exit(void *ret) { ExitThread((DWORD)(intptr_t)ret); } diff --git a/compat/win32/pthread.h b/compat/win32/pthread.h index 20b35a2..b6ed9e7 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 void 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