/* A substitute for ISO C11 . Copyright 2012-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, see . */ /* Written by Paul Eggert. */ #ifndef noreturn /* ISO C11 for platforms that lack it. References: ISO C11 (latest free draft ) section 7.23 */ /* The definition of _Noreturn is copied here. */ #if 1200 <= _MSC_VER || defined __CYGWIN__ /* On MSVC, standard include files contain declarations like __declspec (noreturn) void abort (void); "#define noreturn _Noreturn" would cause this declaration to be rewritten to the invalid __declspec (__declspec (noreturn)) void abort (void); Similarly, on Cygwin, standard include files contain declarations like void __cdecl abort (void) __attribute__ ((noreturn)); "#define noreturn _Noreturn" would cause this declaration to be rewritten to the invalid void __cdecl abort (void) __attribute__ ((__attribute__ ((__noreturn__)))); Instead, define noreturn to empty, so that such declarations are rewritten to __declspec () void abort (void); or void __cdecl abort (void) __attribute__ (()); respectively. This gives up on noreturn's advice to the compiler but at least it is valid code. */ # define noreturn /*empty*/ #else # define noreturn _Noreturn #endif /* Did he ever return? No he never returned And his fate is still unlearn'd ... -- Steiner J, Hawes BL. M.T.A. (1949) */ #endif /* noreturn */