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From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn.
Date: Friday, November 21, 2008 - 5:58 am

"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> writes:


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.

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[PATCH] MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn., David Daney, (Thu Nov 20, 6:26 pm)
Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn., Alan Cox, (Fri Nov 21, 3:00 am)
Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn., Geert Uytterhoeven, (Fri Nov 21, 3:27 am)
Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn., Maciej W. Rozycki, (Fri Nov 21, 4:14 am)
Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn., Andreas Schwab, (Fri Nov 21, 5:58 am)
Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn., David Daney, (Fri Nov 21, 9:40 am)
Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn., Geert Uytterhoeven, (Fri Nov 21, 11:46 am)
Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn., Ralf Baechle, (Fri Nov 21, 3:16 pm)
Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn., Andrew Morton, (Fri Nov 21, 4:00 pm)
Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn., David Daney, (Fri Nov 21, 4:48 pm)
Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn., Ralf Baechle, (Sat Nov 22, 2:39 am)
Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn., Ingo Molnar, (Sun Nov 23, 2:58 am)
Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn., Ralf Baechle, (Mon Nov 24, 2:20 am)
Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn., Maciej W. Rozycki, (Mon Nov 24, 12:04 pm)
Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Mon Nov 24, 5:16 pm)