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From(Alan Cox)
SubjectRe: [2.1.90][PATCH] Cleaning up linux-2.1.90.
DateThu, 19 Mar 1998 11:18:44 +0000 (GMT)
> >But in the case of exit the procedure end is never reached.
> >If the prototype of exit is correctly marked as noreturn
> >(extern void exit(int) __attribute__ ((noreturn));) then
> >gcc won't barf.> >  Yeah, but other compilers will probably not compile that construct...
> 
Which is why its __attribute(x)__ -  anything beginning __ is compiler
depenant. It also means you can #define __attribute(x)


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