Aiden Leong reported modpost fails to build on macOS since commit
16a473f60e ("modpost: inform compilers that fatal() never returns"):
scripts/mod/modpost.c:93:21: error: aliases are not supported on darwin
Nathan's research indicates that Darwin seems to support weak aliases
at least [1]. Although the situation might be improved in future Clang
versions, we can achieve a similar outcome without relying on it.
This commit makes fatal() a macro of error() + exit(1) in modpost.h, as
compilers recognize that exit() never returns.
[1]: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/71001
Fixes: 16a473f60e ("modpost: inform compilers that fatal() never returns")
Reported-by: Aiden Leong <aiden.leong@aibsd.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/d9ac2960-6644-4a87-b5e4-4bfb6e0364a8@aibsd.com/
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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