GNU bug report logs - #15807
guile-2.0.9 doesn't handle Apple clang < 5 or llvm.org clang < 3.3 properly

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Package: guile;

Reported by: Jack Howarth <howarth <at> bromo.med.uc.edu>

Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 00:53:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #18 received at 15807-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: 15807-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15807: guile-2.0.9 doesn't handle Apple clang < 5 or llvm.org
 clang < 3.3 properly
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:12:09 -0500

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> skribis:
>
>> So clang is pretending to be GCC (by defining __GNUC__), and then breaks
>> if we use the noreturn attribute which has been supported in GCC since
>> version 2.5 (released in 1993) ?  If so, I consider that a bug in clang.
>
> Agreed.  As long as Clang defines __GNUC__, we should ignore any such problem.

I'm closing this bug now, since we've not heard from the original
reporter since he filed the bug, and I believe the problem is already
now fixed (by changing "noreturn" to "__noreturn__" in Guile).

     Mark
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 132 days ago.

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