"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Otherwise it looks like the attribute is useless -- it looks like it can > only be used for functions where GCC can determine the function does not > return anyway. Which means it is redundant. The purpose of the attribute is to tell the _callers_ of this function that it does not return. It does not change how the attributed function itself is compiled. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
