Re: __attribute__ , noreturn

From: Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 09:46:49 EST


Tiger wrote:
> Can some one explain what exactly it does __attribute__ and what is
> noretun

Read the GCC manual under "C Extensions", "Function Attributes".
`__attribute__ ((noreturn))' means the function does not return and the
compiler can assume that when optimising.

-- Jamie

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