Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:35:16 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, re-send] Always trap on BUG() |
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On 07/15/2013 03:27 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 03:16:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> I've been thinking for a while that CONFIG_BUG=n is a pretty dumb thing >> to do, and that maintaining it (and trying to fix the warnings it >> produces) aren't worth the effort and that we should remove the whole >> thing. Perhaps your patch changes that calculus, dunno. Please discuss. > > This isn't about introducing "CONFIG_BUG=n" - this is about making a > kernel with CONFIG_BUG=n build without producing tonnes and tonnes of > warnings, as it does today. It makes building randconfig pretty > useless to find what could be more important warnings. >
Well, there are three alternatives here, right:
1. We can use unreachable(), which means that the compiler can assume it never happens.
2. We can trap without metadata.
3. We can trap with metadata (current CONFIG_BUG=y).
I am *guessing* this does 2, but it isn't clear.
-hpa
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