Re: make pg_attribute_noreturn() work for msvc?

Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> So perhaps we ought to rename pg_attribute_noreturn() to pg_noreturn(),
> add a __declspec(noreturn) version, and move the existing uses to it.

> I'm inclined to also drop the parentheses at the same time (i.e
> pg_noreturn rather than pg_noreturn()) - it seems easier to mentally
> parse the code that way.

I guess my big question about that is whether pgindent will make a
hash of it.

One idea is to merge it with the "void" result type that such
a function would presumably have, along the lines of

#define pg_noreturn void __declspec(noreturn)
...
extern pg_noreturn proc_exit(int);

and if necessary, we could strongarm pgindent into believing
that pg_noreturn is a typedef.

regards, tom lane