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  • Hash : 33bbbed9
    Author : Nick Mathewson
    Date : 2010-05-13T10:57:30

    Mark the event_err() functions as __attribute__((noreturn))
    
    This attribute tells gcc (and anything else that understands gcc
    attributes) that the functions will never return control, and helps
    the optimizer a little.  With luck, it will also tell
    less-than-full-program dataflow analysis tools that they don't need to
    worry about any code path that involves calling one of these functions
    and then returning.
    
    This patch also forces event_exit() to always exit, no matter what the
    user-supplied fatal_callback does.  This means that the old unit tests
    for the event_err* functions don't work any more, since they assume it
    is safe to call event_err* if you've given it a bogus fatal_callback
    that doesn't exit.  Instead, we have to make the unit tests fork
    before calling event_err(), and have the main unit test process wait
    for the event_err() test to exit with a sane exit code.  On unix,
    that's trivial.  On windows, let's not bother and just assume that
    event_err* works.
    

  • README

  • 0. BUILDING AND INSTALLATION (Briefly)
    
    $ ./configure
    $ make
    $ make verify   # (optional)
    $ sudo make install
    
    1. BUILDING AND INSTALLATION (In Depth)
    
    To build libevent, type
    
    $ ./configure && make
    
         (If you got libevent from the git repository, you will
          first need to run the included "autogen.sh" script in order to
          generate the configure script.)
    
    Install as root via
    
    # make install
    
    You can run the regression tests by running
    
    $ make verify
    
    Before, reporting any problems, please run the regression tests.
    
    To enable the low-level tracing build the library as:
    
       CFLAGS=-DUSE_DEBUG ./configure [...]
    
    Standard configure flags should work.  In particular, see:
    
       --disable-shared          Only build static libraries
       --prefix                  Install all files relative to this directory.
    
    
    The configure script also supports the following flags:
    
       --enable-gcc-warnings     Enable extra compiler checking with GCC.
       --disable-malloc-replacement
                                 Don't let applications replace our memory
                                 management functions
       --disable-openssl         Disable support for OpenSSL encryption.
       --disable-thread-support  Don't support multithreaded environments.
    
    2. USEFUL LINKS:
    
    For the latest released version of Libevent, see the official website at
    http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ .
    
    There's a pretty good work-in-progress manual up at
       http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/libevent-book/ .
    
    For the latest development versions of Libevent, access our Git repository
    via
       "git clone git://levent.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/levent/libevent"
    
    You can browse the git repository online at
    http://levent.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb-index.cgi .
    
    To report bugs, request features, or submit patches to Libevent,
    use the Sourceforge trackers at
    https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=50884 .
    
    There's also a libevent-users mailing list for talking about Libevent
    use and development: http://archives.seul.org/libevent/users/
    
    3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    
    The following people have helped with suggestions, ideas, code or
    fixing bugs:
    
      Alejo
      Weston Andros Adamson
      William Ahern
      Stas Bekman
      Ka-Hing Cheung
      Andrew Danforth
      Christopher Davis
      Mike Davis
      Shie Erlich
      Alexander von Gernler
      Artur Grabowski
      Aaron Hopkins
      Tani Hosokawa
      Claudio Jeker
      Valery Kyholodov
      Marko Kreen
      Scott Lamb
      Adam Langley
      Christopher Layne
      Philip Lewis
      David Libenzi
      Moshe Litvin
      Hagne Mahre
      Lubomir Marinov
      Nick Mathewson
      James Mansion
      Andrey Matveev
      Caitlin Mercer
      Trond Norbye
      Richard Nyberg
      Jon Oberheide
      Phil Oleson
      Dave Pacheco
      Tassilo von Parseval
      Pierre Phaneuf
      Ryan Phillips
      Jon Poland
      Bert JW Regeer
      Hanna Schroeter
      Kevin Springborn
      Ferenc Szalai
      Dug Song
      Zack Weinberg
      Taral
      propanbutan
      mmadia
    
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