On 04-Mar-01 Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Farooq Mela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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?
Err, __dead2 is a macro. For gcc we define it to something useful, and for
other compilers we just define it as nothing. The kernel code uses this for
things like exit1(), etc. It's in <sys/cdecl.h>.
Some other kernel functions that need it if they don't have it are
kthread_exit() and sigexit().
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