Thread (8 messages) flat view 8 messages, 4 authors, 2016-06-15

Re: [PATCH v2] Mark win32's pthread_exit() as NORETURN

From: <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:08:34

Am 01.03.2016 um 15:13 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:
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.":
Does this really mean that ExitThread() does not return ?

Just wondering...
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
        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);
 }
--

Stefan
-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/random says: We're lost, but we're making good time.
python -c "print '73746566616e2e6e616577654061746c61732d656c656b74726f6e696b2e636f6d'.decode('hex')" 
GPG Key fingerprint = 2DF5 E01B 09C3 7501 BCA9  9666 829B 49C5 9221 27AF
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help