Re: any value to "NORET_TYPE" macro?

[John Anthony Kazos Jr.]

>   given that:
> 
> $ grep -r "define.*NORET_TYPE" *
> include/linux/ext4_fs.h:# define NORET_TYPE    /**/
> include/linux/linkage.h:#define NORET_TYPE    /**/
> include/linux/ext3_fs.h:# define NORET_TYPE    /**/
> $
> 
> is there any obvious value to the 30 or so uses of that macro
> sprinkled throughout the tree?

Since it evaluates to absolutely empty code during pre-processing, there 
is no obvious value. The question is whether there is some odd hackish 
non-obvious value, I'd expect. (I'd also expect that to be another "no".)

If something that evaluates to nothingness ("There was nothing left...not 
even a hole!") actually does anything, then somebody in the 
standards-compilers-users pipeline needs to be violently beaten for 
stupidity.
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