Tuesday, November 07, 2023

Re: __dead

On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 03:08:18PM +0000, Lucretia wrote:
> I've seen __dead a few places in the source code, does this mean it isn't functional anymore, or maybe just deprecated?
>

It's the old non-standard representation for __attribute__(__noreturn__)
in code, to stop the compiler whining and unwarranted optimisations.

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