Re: IA32 (2.6.2 - 2004-02-05.22.30) - 3 New warnings (gcc 3.2.2)

[viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 08:52:00AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> > 
> > IOW, gcc doesn't realize that we never return from BUG().  AFAICS, it
> > should.  Some changes of __volatile__ semantics?
> 
> Thsrs is no way to tell gcc that an inline asm doesn't return. The only
> way to do it would be to add something like a "for (;;);" (that gcc will
> actually generate real code for) inside the BUG() macro, but I'd hate to 
> do that.

Umm...  How about

static inline void BUG() __attribute__((noreturn));

static inline void BUG(void)
{
	__asm__ ....
}
 
> Better to just initialize the variable to a default value and avoid the 
> warning for now.

Alternatively, we can just turn the damn thing into
	if (dev->mode == IMM_NIBBLE || dev->mode = IMM_PS2)
		ports = 3;
	else
		ports = 8;
and be done with that...