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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>,
	arnd@arndb.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] BUG(): CONFIG_BUG=n version of BUG() should be unreachable()
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:58:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9664.1262714298@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091226184722.GA25275@merkur.ravnborg.org>

Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:

> +#define BUG() do {							\
> +		for (;;)						\
> +			/* endless loop*/;				\
> +		unreachable();						\
> +} while(0)

Can you not do:

	#define BUG() do {						\
			unreachable();					\
	} while(1)

instead?  If the compiler is interpreting unreachable() to really mean that
what comes after will not be reached, then the condition/loop at the end of
the block should be optimised away.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-05 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-23  1:17 [PATCH] BUG(): CONFIG_BUG=n version of BUG() should be unreachable() Alexander Beregalov
2009-12-23  1:26 ` David Daney
2009-12-23  1:37   ` David Daney
2009-12-30 19:12     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-01-04 18:06       ` David Daney
2010-01-05 11:35         ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-12-26 18:47 ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-01-05 17:58   ` David Howells [this message]
2010-01-05 18:30     ` Arnd Bergmann

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