Linus Torvalds wrote:
> .. and I'm pretty sure it's immaterial.
>
> 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.
>
No, not any more. The file and line info is out of line, in a separate
section, indexed by the ud2a's eip. The main problem with
__builtin_trap is that there's no certain way to get the actual ud2a eip
(ie, paste an asm label onto it).
J
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