linux-kernel - Re: Is there any word about this bug in gcc ?

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Message-ID: <20071121172254.GA1299@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date:	Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:22:54 -0500
From:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To:	"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
	goodmenkernel@...il.com
Subject: Re: Is there any word about this bug in gcc ?

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 09:19:05PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> And on IRC, they explained that it is a piece of code that never gets 
> called. So not a hit.

It's still a hit.  If the code is never called it should not be there in
the first place.

--
Len Sorensen
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