Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] getting rid of stupid loop in BUG() | Date | Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:50:47 +1000 |
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Trent Piepho (on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:31:36 -0700 (PDT)) wrote: >Adding __builtin_trap after the >asm might be an ok fix. It will emit a spurious int 6, but that won't even be >reached since the asm doesn't return, and it probably be less extra code than >the loop.
int 6 is a two byte instruction, the loop generates jmp with an 8 bit offset, also two bytes. No change in code size.
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