Re: warning in 2.4.1pre10

[J . A . Magallon]

On 01.25 Peter Samuelson wrote:
> 
> [J. A. Magallon]
> > It is harmless, 'cause the last sentence in the funtion is a panic,
> > but it is good to add the 'return 0', just to shut up the compiler.
> 
> The correct fix is __attribute__((noreturn)) in the panic() prototype.
> As it happens, this has already been done....
> 

I know Linux will never be compiled with any other thing than gcc. But
what I do not understand is why if there is a standard C way of doing
something you have to use an strange extension of gcc.
Same happens with 'return' and 'break'. You type the same to add a
'/* DO NOT REMEMBER THE PRECISE COMMENT */' to shut up the compiler
instead of just writing
case X:
	...
	return xxx;
	break;

???
Size optimization for the couple of bytes of the jump in return or break ?

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