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SubjectRe: [PATCH][RFC] getting rid of stupid loop in BUG()
Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On 07/25/2007 01:41 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> I reported it as a gcc bug, but they refused to hear of it. Details at
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29305
>>
>
> Wow.
>
> I especially like "You should plan a better way. "

FWIW, at Transmeta we had a local extension to gcc called
"__builtin_not_reached()" which we used to tell gcc that an assembly
statement would terminate the control flow.

Another useful extension was a variant of __builtin_trap() which would
create a dummy ELF relocation for the trapping instruction with a target.

-hpa
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