Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:36:46 +0100 | | From | Al Viro <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] getting rid of stupid loop in BUG() |
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On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:56:12AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > We don't just do the "ud2" instruction - we also do the file and line > number information after it. Which means that __builtin_trap() is useless. > > So we might as well keep the loop, since both are two-byte instructions > that tell gcc that it will never continue.
Actually, the worse problem is that gcc will happily merge these guys. And that's a killer. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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