Re: IA32 (2.6.2 - 2004-02-05.22.30) - 3 New warnings (gcc 3.2.2)

From: Randy.Dunlap
Date: Tue Feb 10 2004 - 10:52:12 EST


On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:32:45 -0000 spam@xxxxxxxxx (Dick Streefland) wrote:

| Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
| | On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
| | >
| | > Umm... How about
| | >
| | > static inline void BUG() __attribute__((noreturn));
| | >
| | > static inline void BUG(void)
| | > {
| | > __asm__ ....
| | > }
| |
| | Did you try that? Last time I tried, gcc would complain every time it saw
| | the thing about "noreturn function does return".
|
| So, make sure it won't return ;-)
|
| static inline void BUG(void)
| {
| __asm__ ("1: jmp 1b");
| BUG();
| }

doesn't that sorta miss the BUG output?

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