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

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Message-ID: <9602.1185384943@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:35:43 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jeremy@...p.org,
	kaos@....com.au, xyzzy@...akeasy.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] getting rid of stupid loop in BUG()

Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk> wrote:

> Where do you see passing &&<label> to assembly?  More interesting question
> is whether gcc believes it to be const...

Passing labels like that to assembly didn't used to work, which is a pity as
we could speed up things like get_user() if it could be made to.

David
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