Re: [PATCH 02/10] x86: Convert BUG() to use unreachable()

From: Roland McGrath
Date: Thu Sep 10 2009 - 21:39:14 EST


> There are other cases where that kind of config-time testing could be
> useful, and we could avoid doing various gcc checks dynamically from
> within 'make' (along with checking for known-buggy versions etc).

I quite agree that this would be an improvement for many sorts of compiler
feature (and other tool detail) conditionalization.


Thanks,
Roland
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