Re: [PATCH 11/11] Use unreachable() in asm-generic/bug.h for !CONFIG_BUG case.

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, David Daney wrote:
> 
> The existing code just falls through to whatever happens to follow the BUG().

Brian was talking BUG_ON().

And the existing !CONFIG_BUG BUG_ON() is actually set up so that gcc will 
just optimize it away entirely (yet give the same compile-time warnings as 
the "real" BUG_ON() does).

Changing it to "if (cond) unreachable()" is likely to generate _more_ 
code, which is against the whole point of wanting to disable CONFIG_BUG.

			Linus
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