Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn.

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On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:26:36 -0800
David Daney <ddaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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