http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57374
--- Comment #2 from Akim Demaille <akim.demaille at gmail dot com> --- Hi Paolo, I have tried to put it in about every possible place, and the one I used in the attached example is the one from http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2761.pdf which is cited in http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53528 . $ cat /tmp/foo.cc void die0 () { throw 0; } [[noreturn]] void die1 () [[noreturn]] { throw 1; } void die2 [[noreturn]] () { throw 2; } void [[noreturn]] die3 () { throw 3; } [[noreturn]] void die4 () { throw 4; } $ g++-mp-4.8 -Wall -Wsuggest-attribute=noreturn -c -std=c++11 /tmp/foo.cc /tmp/foo.cc:2:25: warning: 'noreturn' attribute directive ignored [-Wattributes] void die1 () [[noreturn]] { throw 1; } ^ /tmp/foo.cc:2:25: warning: 'noreturn' attribute directive ignored [-Wattributes] /tmp/foo.cc:3:25: warning: 'noreturn' attribute directive ignored [-Wattributes] void die2 [[noreturn]] () { throw 2; } ^ /tmp/foo.cc:4:6: warning: 'noreturn' attribute directive ignored [-Wattributes] void [[noreturn]] die3 () { throw 3; } ^ /tmp/foo.cc:5:25: warning: 'noreturn' attribute directive ignored [-Wattributes] [[noreturn]] void die4 () { throw 4; } ^ /tmp/foo.cc: In function 'void die0()': /tmp/foo.cc:1:6: warning: function might be candidate for attribute 'noreturn' [-Wsuggest-attribute=noreturn] void die0 () { throw 0; } [[noreturn]] ^ /tmp/foo.cc: In function 'void die1()': /tmp/foo.cc:2:6: warning: function might be candidate for attribute 'noreturn' [-Wsuggest-attribute=noreturn] void die1 () [[noreturn]] { throw 1; } ^ /tmp/foo.cc: In function 'void die2()': /tmp/foo.cc:3:6: warning: function might be candidate for attribute 'noreturn' [-Wsuggest-attribute=noreturn] void die2 [[noreturn]] () { throw 2; } ^ /tmp/foo.cc: In function 'void die3()': /tmp/foo.cc:4:19: warning: function might be candidate for attribute 'noreturn' [-Wsuggest-attribute=noreturn] void [[noreturn]] die3 () { throw 3; } ^ /tmp/foo.cc: In function 'void die4()': /tmp/foo.cc:5:19: warning: function might be candidate for attribute 'noreturn' [-Wsuggest-attribute=noreturn] [[noreturn]] void die4 () { throw 4; } ^
