linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 05/12] regmap: irq: Remove unreachable goto

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Message-ID: <Z_aZmJxPwIBgcwhG@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 19:00:24 +0300
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 05/12] regmap: irq: Remove unreachable goto

On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 04:46:04PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 06:38:32PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 04:19:27PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > BUG() can be compiled out, CONFIG_BUG.
> 
> > Yes, and it's still has unreachable() there. So, this change is correct.
> > See include/asm-generic/bug.h for the details of the implementation.
> > And yes, if we have an architecture that does not do this way, it has to
> > be fixed.
> 
> unreachable() just annotates things, AFAICT it doesn't actually
> guarantee to do anything in particular if the annotation turns out to be
> incorrect.

I;m not sure I follow. unreachable is a wrapper on top of
__builtin_unreachable() which is intrinsic of the compiler.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#index-_005f_005fbuiltin_005funreachable

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko