The warnings about functions not returning values can be removed from the code by just adding an attribute to the function to specifies it doesn't return. The GCC bug referenced in the makefile which prevents this from working has been fixed for >10 years according to bugzilla.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> --- examples/performance-thread/l3fwd-thread/Makefile | 6 ------ examples/performance-thread/l3fwd-thread/main.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/examples/performance-thread/l3fwd-thread/Makefile b/examples/performance-thread/l3fwd-thread/Makefile index 1a1c95829..b14b21e30 100644 --- a/examples/performance-thread/l3fwd-thread/Makefile +++ b/examples/performance-thread/l3fwd-thread/Makefile @@ -20,10 +20,4 @@ include $(RTE_SDK)/examples/performance-thread/common/common.mk CFLAGS += -O3 -g $(USER_FLAGS) $(INCLUDES) $(WERROR_FLAGS) -# workaround for a gcc bug with noreturn attribute -# http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12603 -#ifeq ($(CONFIG_RTE_TOOLCHAIN_GCC),y) -CFLAGS_main.o += -Wno-return-type -#endif - include $(RTE_SDK)/mk/rte.extapp.mk diff --git a/examples/performance-thread/l3fwd-thread/main.c b/examples/performance-thread/l3fwd-thread/main.c index 122c63244..ad540fd84 100644 --- a/examples/performance-thread/l3fwd-thread/main.c +++ b/examples/performance-thread/l3fwd-thread/main.c @@ -1877,7 +1877,7 @@ process_burst(struct rte_mbuf *pkts_burst[MAX_PKT_BURST], int nb_rx, /* * CPU-load stats collector */ -static int +static int __attribute__((noreturn)) cpu_load_collector(__rte_unused void *arg) { unsigned i, j, k; uint64_t hits; @@ -2299,7 +2299,7 @@ sched_spawner(__rte_unused void *arg) { } /* main processing loop */ -static int +static int __attribute__((noreturn)) pthread_tx(void *dummy) { struct rte_mbuf *pkts_burst[MAX_PKT_BURST]; -- 2.21.0
