Re: 23.0; Current CVS Emacs: compiling fails on windows xp using msvc 2003

[Tobias Bading]

>     The compiler is too dumb to know that abort never returns.
>
> Maybe abort needs one more nickel in order to return.

:-)

(sorry for replying to this mail instead of Andreas' or Christoph's,  
but I just joined this list, don't have all of their original mails/ 
postings and my stupid news server won't let me post to  
gnu.emacs.bug :-()

Anyway, process.h and stdlib.h of the old Mickeysoft DevStudio 6.0  
SP6 both contain

   #if _MSC_VER >= 1200
   _CRTIMP __declspec(noreturn) void __cdecl abort(void);

so your compiler *should* know better. At least he can't blaim it on  
the header files ;-).
(_MSC_VER=1200 is the Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, and your's is newer)
If your header files contain the same __declspec(noreturn), I'd say  
the compiler is talking about an other path of control not involving  
abort().

Have a nice day,
Tobias

PS: Please get the english version of DevStudio next time, the german  
translations of some error messages are plain stupid... or feed them  
to babelfish before posting ;-).