Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 09:56:21AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> Al Viro wrote:
>>> AFAICS, the patch below should do it for i386; instead of
>>> using a dummy loop to tell gcc that this sucker never returns,
>>> we do
>>> static void __always_inline __noreturn __BUG(const char *file, int line);
>>> containing the actual asm we want to insert and define BUG() as
>>> __BUG(__FILE__, __LINE__). It looks safe, but I don't claim enough
>>> experience with gcc __asm__ potential nastiness, so...
>>>
>>> Comments, objections?
>>>
>> Does it work? When I wrote the BUG code I tried this, but gcc kept
>> warning about "noreturn function returns". I couldn't work out a way to
>> convince gcc that the asm is the end of the line.
>
> Works here...
Could it be a gcc version difference?
-hpa
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