Re: [PATCH 01/19] * m4/gnulib-common.m4 (gl_COMMON_BODY): Add _Noreturn.

[Ben Pfaff]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> In summary, it looks to me that the ISO C and ISO C++ committees need to
> do some more work to align the syntaxes.
>   extern noreturn void _Exit (void);
> vs.
>   extern [[noreturn]] void _Exit (void);

If the difference is this small, then we could work around it in
Gnulib:

#if (C++ style noreturn)
#define noreturn [[noreturn]]
#elif (C style noreturn)
/* nothing to do */
#elif (Microsoft style noreturn)
#define noreturn __declspec(noreturn)
#else
#define noreturn
#endif
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Ben Pfaff 
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