Re: [PATCH 02/10] x86: Convert BUG() to use unreachable()

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 09/10/2009 04:56 PM, David Daney wrote:
> Use the new unreachable() macro instead of for(;;);.  When
> allyesconfig is built with a GCC-4.5 snapshot on i686 the size of the
> text segment is reduced by 3987 bytes (from 6827019 to 6823032).
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: x86@xxxxxxxxxx

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>

... although of course this clashes with Roland McGrath's patchset for
the same thing which I applied earlier.  I have to say I like
unreachable() in lower case better though...

	-hpa
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