Re: [KEXEC][2.5.69] Re: Updated kexec diffs...

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 12:14:02 EST


ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
> Is it more of a help or a hindrance to use gcc noreturn
> tag?

It seems to be a significant hassle - it propagates all over the place and
makes one curse. It's like retroconstification, as you say.

I'd be inclined to leave the function prototypes as-is and stick a
commented while(1); in those places which actually need it, frankly.

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