Re: [PATCH] stdlib: support non-GCC __attribute__

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Here's a proposed patch.
> 
> That looks good as far as it goes,

OK, here's a revised patch. Avoids the #ifndef now, and includes some tests/*.c
files.

> but while we're at it, 
> shouldn't we use a consistent naming convention?
> It's confusing that one .h file uses _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN and
> another uses ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN, for the same notion.

Good point. Here's a patch to rename these macros, so that they use the
_GL_ prefix which we agreed a couple of months ago is the least risky.

Objections to these patches? Jim? Paul?

> If nobody objects, I'd like to apply a similar patch
> to the C files as well, if only to forestall people
> cutting-and-pasting wrong code from them in the future.

You're welcome!

Bruno
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