Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:00:35 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn. |
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:26:36 -0800 David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
> MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn. > > Often we do things like put BUG() in the default clause of a case > statement. Since it was not declared __noreturn, this could sometimes > lead to bogus compiler warnings that variables were used > uninitialized. > > There is a small problem in that we have to put a magic while(1); loop to > fool GCC into really thinking it is noreturn.
That sounds like your __noreturn macro is wrong.
Try using __attribute__ ((__noreturn__))
if that works then fix up the __noreturn definitions for the MIPS and gcc you have.
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