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authorHans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>2003-10-12 16:08:10 +0000
committerHans-Peter Nilsson <hp@gcc.gnu.org>2003-10-12 16:08:10 +0000
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extend.texi (Function Attributes): Mention the exceptional path for noreturn-marked functions.
* doc/extend.texi (Function Attributes): Mention the exceptional path for noreturn-marked functions. From-SVN: r72401
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+2003-10-12 Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
+
+ * doc/extend.texi (Function Attributes): Mention the exceptional
+ path for noreturn-marked functions.
+
2003-10-12 Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>
* cgraphunit.c (cgraph_decide_inlining): Fix uninitialized variable
diff --git a/gcc/doc/extend.texi b/gcc/doc/extend.texi
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@@ -2020,6 +2020,10 @@ would happen if @code{fatal} ever did return. This makes slightly
better code. More importantly, it helps avoid spurious warnings of
uninitialized variables.
+The @code{noreturn} keyword does not affect the exceptional path when that
+applies: a @code{noreturn}-marked function may still return to the caller
+by throwing an exception.
+
Do not assume that registers saved by the calling function are
restored before calling the @code{noreturn} function.