Re: [PATCH][RFC] getting rid of stupid loop in BUG()

[Keith Owens]

Trent Piepho (on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:31:36 -0700 (PDT)) wrote:
>Adding __builtin_trap after the
>asm might be an ok fix.  It will emit a spurious int 6, but that won't even be
>reached since the asm doesn't return, and it probably be less extra code than
>the loop.

int 6 is a two byte instruction, the loop generates jmp with an 8 bit
offset, also two bytes.  No change in code size.

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