From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 4 12: 8:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4E2D37B718 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 12:08:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fmela0@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us) Received: from sm.socccd.cc.ca.us (pool0144.cvx15-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.44.144]) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA20173; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 12:08:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3AA2A11F.D2CCE631@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us> Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 12:10:07 -0800 From: Farooq Mela Reply-To: fmela0@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pthread_exit proto References: <3AA29546.7D709D6@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us> <20010304115811.Q8663@fw.wintelcom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Farooq Mela [010304 11:18] wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Could someone with CVS write access make the following change in > > pthread.h > > > > void pthread_exit __P((void *)); > > > > to > > > > void pthread_exit __P((void *)) __dead2; > > > > as this function doesnt return and gcc is giving me some annoying > > warnings ;-) > > > > BTW, what is the standard mechanism for submitting a patch such as > > this. I know this probably isn't the really correct place to post > > this... > > using send-pr: > http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#gnats > > Is '__dead2' a GNU C thing? or is in any sort of standard? > > Generally there's some resistance to putting GNU C specific > code into the base system, is there a portable way to do this? > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message Erm... not really... __dead2, __unused, and even __pure2 are littered throughout FreeBSD's header files... nothing wrong with them being there as if the compiler being used is not GCC they are #define'd to nothing. If there is some resistance to putting GCC-specific stuff in the system, its news to me, because these attributes are used all over the place for stuff like exit, _exit, abort, etc. I see nothing wrong with using this GCC extension. -- -farooq To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message