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Date:      Wed, 3 May 2017 13:38:39 -0600
From:      Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>,  "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r317755 - head/sbin/ifconfig
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On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 12:16 PM, Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On May 3, 2017, at 10:21, Alan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Author: asomers
>>>> Date: Wed May  3 17:21:01 2017
>>>> New Revision: 317755
>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/317755
>>>>
>>>> Log:
>>>>  Various Coverity fixes in ifconfig(8)
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>>  * Mark usage() as _Noreturn (1305806, 1305750)
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> -static    void usage(void);
>>>> +static    void usage(void) _Noreturn;
>>>
>>> Hi Alan,
>>>     Please use __dead2 instead to be consistent with legacy use of similar gcc attributes.
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Ngie
>>
>> Why not use _Noreturn?  It's standardized by C11, so tools understand
>> it better than __dead2.
>
> Tools that can't understand #define __dead2 _Noreturn aren't worth supporting.
>
> Warner

Some tools don't expand preprocessor macros.  Like my editor, for
example, which highlights _Noreturn as a keyword but not __dead2.

-Alan



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