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POSIX specification:
Not in POSIX yet, but we expect it will be.
ISO C11 (latest free draft
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf)
sections 7.23.
Gnulib module: stdnoreturn
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
<stdlib.h> and
<process.h>, on some platforms:
MSVC/clang.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
<stdnoreturn.h> and the noreturn macro are obsolescent in C23.
<stdnoreturn.h> cannot be #included in C++ mode on some platforms:
FreeBSD 13.1.
<stdnoreturn.h> should be #included before ‘_Noreturn’ is used.
_Noreturn is a reserved word;
it might be a macro.
lint is defined, standard headers define
_Noreturn (and therefore noreturn) to be a macro that
expands to the empty token sequence on some platforms:
Cygwin 2.5.1, FreeBSD 10.3.
noreturn expands to the empty token
sequence, to avoid problems with standard headers that use noreturn
in combination with __attribute__ or __declspec. Although
the resulting code operates correctly, the compiler is not informed whether
noreturn functions do not return, so it may generate incorrect
warnings at compile-time, or code that is slightly less optimized. This
problem does not occur with _Noreturn.
-Werror=old-style-declaration
requires _Noreturn or noreturn before the returned type
in a declaration, and therefore rejects valid but unusually-worded
declarations such as void _Noreturn foo (void);.
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