Building 1.5rc5 with xlc on linux/ppc I see many instances of the
following warnings
"../../../../orte/mca/ess/ess.h", line 61.16: 1506-959 (W) The attribute
"noreturn" is not a valid type attribute and is ignored.
"../../../../orte/mca/errmgr/errmgr.h", line 134.16: 1506-959 (W) The
attribute "noreturn" is not a valid type attribute and is ignored.
This is nearly the same as the Sun C 5.10 warning I reported in
http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2010/08/8323.php
"../../../../openmpi-1.5rc5/orte/mca/ess/ess.h", line 61: warning:
attribute "noreturn" may not be applied to variable, ignored
"../../../../openmpi-1.5rc5/orte/mca/errmgr/errmgr.h", line 138:
warning: attribute "noreturn" may not be applied to variable, ignored
This indicates a common cause and suggests a common solution:
In both cases the configure probe for compiler support for the
"noreturn" attribute has passed. However, in both cases the compiler is
not happy applying this attribute to a pointer-to-function, (though gcc
is apparently fine with this). I believe that the solution to this is
simply to add a "noreturn_funcptr" probe to
opal/config/opal_check_attributes.m4, analogous to the format_funcptr
probe and then define and use a __opal_attribute_noreturn_funcptr__ as
appropriate.
-Paul
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