Add option to disable NORETURN

Due to a bug in gcc 4.6+ it can crash when doing profile feedback
with a noreturn function pointer

(http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49299)

This adds a Makefile variable to disable noreturns.

[Patch by Junio, description by Andi Kleen]

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e40ac0c7f5ec2f304b88d92f47ff94272f5ce2a4..03b4499d52c8f0870479ec265fb23dce111f853d 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ all::
 # that tells runtime paths to dynamic libraries;
 # "-Wl,-rpath=/path/lib" is used instead.
 #
+# Define NO_NORETURN if using buggy versions of gcc 4.6+ and profile feedback,
+# as the compiler can crash (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49299)
+#
 # Define USE_NSEC below if you want git to care about sub-second file mtimes
 # and ctimes. Note that you need recent glibc (at least 2.2.4) for this, and
 # it will BREAK YOUR LOCAL DIFFS! show-diff and anything using it will likely
@@ -1374,6 +1377,9 @@ endif
 ifdef USE_ST_TIMESPEC
        BASIC_CFLAGS += -DUSE_ST_TIMESPEC
 endif
+ifdef NO_NORETURN
+       BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_NORETURN
+endif
 ifdef NO_NSEC
        BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_NSEC
 endif

diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index e0bb81ed8d0bd89f18b31b1c03d3e23744aea5a1..9925cf0edfa50da6e038b90a140cfab49c92de10 100644 (file)
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ extern char *gitbasename(char *);
 #if __HP_cc >= 61000
 #define NORETURN __attribute__((noreturn))
 #define NORETURN_PTR
-#elif defined(__GNUC__)
+#elif defined(__GNUC__) && !defined(NO_NORETURN)
 #define NORETURN __attribute__((__noreturn__))
 #define NORETURN_PTR __attribute__((__noreturn__))
 #elif defined(_MSC_VER)