On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 16:54 -0700, David Daney wrote:
> Starting with version 4.5, GCC has a new built-in function called
> __builtin_unreachable(). The function tells the compiler that control
> flow will never reach that point. Currently we trick the compiler by
> putting in for(;;); but this h
Starting with version 4.5, GCC has a new built-in function called
__builtin_unreachable(). The function tells the compiler that control
flow will never reach that point. Currently we trick the compiler by
putting in for(;;); but this has the disadvantage that extra code is
emitted for an endless