Re: [PATCH] ubsan: don't mark __ubsan_handle_builtin_unreachable as noreturn

[Andrey Ryabinin]

On 02/02/2018 06:47 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> gcc-8 complains about the prototype for this function:
> 
> lib/ubsan.c:432:1: error: ignoring attribute 'noreturn' in declaration of a built-in function '__ubsan_handle_builtin_unreachable' because it conflicts with attribute 'const' [-Werror=attributes]
> 

That's actually a bug in GCC. In GCC __ubsan_handle_builtin_unreachable declared
with 'noreturn' and 'const' attributes:

DEF_SANITIZER_BUILTIN(BUILT_IN_UBSAN_HANDLE_BUILTIN_UNREACHABLE,                                                                                                                                                    
                      "__ubsan_handle_builtin_unreachable",                                                                                                                                                         
                      BT_FN_VOID_PTR,                                                                                                                                                                               
                      ATTR_COLD_CONST_NORETURN_NOTHROW_LEAF_LIST)


But const attribute doesn't make any sense for function that returns void or doesn't return at all.
Given that gcc-8 has not released yet, it would be better to fix this bug there.