It's commonly to make the compiler aware that the function doesn't return, and/or that it takes an sprintf style format string so that the compiler can check the types in the varargs part.
/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS
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2004-05-18 18:47: Subject: Re: Nettle cmod segfault
The error code looks a bit tricky to me, so I don't know how to achieve this. What's with the DECLSPEC and ATTRIBUTE stuff?
/ Martin Nilsson (räfsfiskal)