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Re: Internal abort call optimization?


David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
> However, the problem is obviously not restricted to Emacs.  If the
> "noreturn" attribute for the internal abort were removed, at least only
> abort calls with compatible stack frame and the same (tentative)
> followup code would get folded.  That would avoid the worst
> head-scratchers when trying to figure out what went wrong.

Without noreturn gcc wouldn't know there is no return needed after
the abort().  Disabling cross jumping would be probably better.
I know of a couple of more cases where such an attribute would 
be useful.

-Andi


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