From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Definition of BUG on x86
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:32:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <499D89AF.5010406@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090219153544.GA31637@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> could we just do:
>
> __builtin_trap();
> for (;;);
>
> and _now_ GCC would optimize away the infinite loop? And if it
> does something silly in a future release, we'd either get a
> build error or we'd run into the infinite loop for sure.
>
I guess that would work. And we have plenty of infrastructure and
precedent for compiler-dependent defines like this.
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-19 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1234975856.15053.16.camel@nathan.suse.cz>
[not found] ` <499C4786.5010504@goop.org>
2009-02-19 11:40 ` Definition of BUG on x86 Petr Tesarik
2009-02-19 12:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-19 12:19 ` Petr Tesarik
2009-02-19 12:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-19 12:38 ` Petr Tesarik
2009-02-19 12:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-19 13:02 ` Petr Tesarik
2009-02-19 14:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-19 15:32 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-19 15:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-19 16:11 ` Petr Tesarik
2009-02-19 16:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-19 16:34 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-19 16:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-19 20:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-19 20:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-19 16:55 ` Petr Tesarik
2009-02-19 16:32 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2009-02-19 18:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
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