ANSI C has a "_Noreturn" attribute that I started to implement,
but I think I might fall back to a #pragma, which would be quicker to do.



On 28 February 2013 14:15, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

> I have rebuilt equis with the change in ape's select
> and it seems to work fine (tested with xlock and xterm only).
>
> this was not quite straightforward due to changes in ape, and
> the compiler becomming a little stricter.
>
> On this subject, what is the general feeling on integer
> type'ed functions which call exit() before falling off the
> end of the function?
>
> This is fairly common in X11 and I have just added a return 0 on
> the end to push the code through the compiler, but should the
> compiler be taught about this case?
>
> if so, it gets a bit nasty as this feature is named
> exit() under ape and exits() in native plan9.
>
> Personally I think falling of the end of a function
> is a bug and should be  fixed, but perhaps it should
> just be a warning rather than an error to make
> building foreign code simpler.
>
> -Steve
>
>