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Date:      Fri, 28 Aug 2015 16:38:47 +0200
From:      Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r287217 - head/usr.sbin/syslogd
Message-ID:  <20150828143847.GA24222@britannica.bec.de>
In-Reply-To: <20150828215109.G1227@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <201508271811.t7RIB0xl077002@repo.freebsd.org> <20150828215109.G1227@besplex.bde.org>

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On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:17:56PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >-static void	die(int);
> >+static void	die(int) __dead2;
> 
> Since the function is static, it is very easy for the compiler to see
> that it doesn't return.

But the compiler can't tell if it is the *intention* that the function
never returns. The warning behavior exists because that can easily
change with macros etc. 

> Even gcc-4.2.1 does this by default, since
> -O implies -funit-at-a-time for gcc-4.2.1.  For clang, there is no way
> to prevent this (except possibly -O0) since, since -fno-unit-at-a-time
> is broken in clang.

It is not broken. It is loadly ignored as unsupported. The very
existance of the option in GCC has always been a concession to broken
and badly written code, including of course GCC's own CRT.

Joerg



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