The pthread_exit() function is not expected to return. Ever. On Windows,
we call ExitThread() whose documentation claims: "This function does not
return a value.":
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682659
Pointed out by Jeff King.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <redacted>
---
Relative to v1, only the commit message changed (to clarify that
ExitThread() indeed never returns).
compat/win32/pthread.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/compat/win32/pthread.h b/compat/win32/pthread.h
index 20b35a2..148db60 100644
--- a/compat/win32/pthread.h
+++ b/compat/win32/pthread.h
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ extern int win32_pthread_join(pthread_t *thread, void **value_ptr);
#define pthread_equal(t1, t2) ((t1).tid == (t2).tid)
extern pthread_t pthread_self(void);
-static inline int pthread_exit(void *ret)
+static inline int NORETURN pthread_exit(void *ret)
{
ExitThread((DWORD)(intptr_t)ret);
}--
2.7.2.windows.1.5.g64acc33