On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 at 00:46, Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> Using that (old) form results in:
>
>     error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type]

Ahh. Annoying, but yeah.

> Except of course, now we get that dangling-else warning, there is no
> winning this :-/

Well, was there any actual problem with the "jump backwards" version?
Przemek implied some problem, but ..

> So I merged that patch because of the compilers getting less confused
> and better code-gen, but if you prefer the old one we can definitely go
> back.

Oh, I'm not in any way trying to force that "_once" variable kind of
pattern. I didn't realize it had had that other compiler confusion
issue.

         Linus

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