In <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000313164007.13112D-100000@ravi.lums.edu.pk> Tiger (01020042@ravi.lums.edu.pk) wrote:
> Can some one explain what exactly it does __attribute__ and what is
> noretun
RTFM, as usual :-) This time gcc's info ... It's all explained there ...
P.S. noreturn mean exactly what you'll think: that function will NEVER return.
It'll supress some compiler warnings and sometimes optimizer can use that info
as well (I'm not sure if it really used by optimizer though)...
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