Re: Definition of BUG on x86

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> could we just do:
>
> 	__builtin_trap();
> 	for (;;);
>
> and _now_ GCC would optimize away the infinite loop? And if it 
> does something silly in a future release, we'd either get a 
> build error or we'd run into the infinite loop for sure.
>   

I guess that would work.  And we have plenty of infrastructure and 
precedent for compiler-dependent defines like this.

   J
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