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From: rth@redhat.com (Richard Henderson)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: Convert BUG() to use unreachable()
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:30:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B2FCCE3.1090209@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091217181718.GA4440@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

On 12/17/2009 10:17 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> How is "size-optimal trap" defined?

E.g. Sparc and MIPS have "tcc" instructions that trap based on the
condition codes, and so we eliminate the branch.  That's the only
optimization we apply with __builtin_trap.

> Let me put it another way: I want this function to terminate with an
> explicit NULL pointer dereference in every case.

Then just use that.


r~

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-21 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-08  9:55 [PATCH] ARM: Convert BUG() to use unreachable() Uwe Kleine-König
2009-12-10 17:50 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
     [not found]   ` <4B213627.5000007@caviumnetworks.com>
2009-12-16 13:58     ` Uwe Kleine-König
2009-12-17 15:01 ` Jamie Lokier
     [not found]   ` <4B2A65C6.7080009@caviumnetworks.com>
2009-12-17 17:17     ` Richard Guenther
2009-12-17 18:17       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-12-17 18:35         ` Joe Buck
2009-12-17 19:06           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-12-17 19:14             ` Joe Buck
2009-12-17 19:33               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-12-17 19:38               ` Jamie Lokier
2009-12-17 19:48                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-12-17 19:58                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-12-17 19:04         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-12-21 19:30         ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2009-12-21 20:10           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-12-22 14:09             ` Dave Korn
2009-12-22 14:12               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-12-22 14:49                 ` Dave Korn
2009-12-22 11:33       ` Paolo Bonzini

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