On 5/29/2016 6:43 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
On 5/28/2016 5:47 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
On 5/28/2016 2:57 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
emacs_abort is declared with _Noreturn, so how come GCC doesn't shut
up about "unreachable" code?
It looks like the problem is the definition of _Noreturn as a macro in
config.h. I'll have to figure out what's going on.
That guess was wrong. The problem turns out to be that lint is defined
in config.h. When lint is defined, Cygwin's <sys/cdefs.h> defines
_Noreturn to be a macro with empty expansion. I've raised the question
on the Cygwin list
(https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-05/msg00374.html) as to whether
that's a bug.
The answer is that the Cygwin's <sys/cdefs.h> is taken from FreeBSD, so
the problem will exist there too. (I just checked the FreeBSD git repo
and confirmed that the code in question is still there.) So it looks
like defining lint should be disabled on Cygwin and FreeBSD, at least.
Or maybe it should only be enabled on platforms where it's known that it
doesn't cause problems.
Paul, you're the one who introduced this. What do you think?