Subject: bug#15798: Bad variable name "noreturn" in libguile/throw.h

From: Jack Howarth <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 20:48:32 -0500

On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 07:48:29PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Matt Sicker <[email-masked]> writes:
> > In the function scm_ithrow, the parameter "int noreturn" is given. Now
> > this works fine normally, but if stdnoreturn.h is included before
> > throw.h (or libguile.h more likely), then this causes a compilation
> > error. In throw.c, noreturn is even marked as an unused variable, so
> > this is even more annoying! I recommend using "no_return" to prevent
> > any namespace conflicts.
> 
> Fixed in stable-2.0.  Thanks for the report.
> 
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=guile.git;a=commit;h=36c40440078c005cd5e239cca487d29f6f60007d
> 
>     Mark
> 
> 

What is the motivation to change from attribute (noreturn) to attribute (__noreturn__). Xcode 5.0
has /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/lib/clang/5.0/include/stdnoreturn.h with...

/*===---- stdnoreturn.h - Standard header for noreturn macro ---------------===
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#ifndef __STDNORETURN_H
#define __STDNORETURN_H

#define noreturn _Noreturn
#define __noreturn_is_defined 1

#endif /* __STDNORETURN_H */

I only see the use of __attribute__((__noreturn__)) in /usr/include/c++/4.2.1/
on darwin13 (aka libstdc++). The /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/lib/c++/v1 directory
for libc++ only shows the usage of __attribute__((noreturn)) and not any usages of
__attribute__((__noreturn__)).
             Jack
ps Also see http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=15807.