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Date:      Thu, 21 Apr 2016 12:59:43 -0500
From:      Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Juli Mallett <juli@clockworksquid.com>, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
Cc:        Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r298412 - head/sys/ofed/drivers/infiniband/core
Message-ID:  <5719150F.7030200@FreeBSD.org>
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On 21/04/2016 12:52, Juli Mallett wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> wrote:
>> On 04/21/16 19:12, Ngie Cooper wrote:
>>> Please put the "deadcode" back. It will crash now if it's given an
>>> invalid address family (or none are configured in the kernel) when it
>>> tries to do the memcpy below.
>>
>> If you look a few lines up in the file, not the patch, you'll see that there
>> already is a switch case which catches this.
>>
>> OK?
> Then there should be an assertion or something else of that sort (I
> forget if we have a __builtin_unreachable()-alike macro in the kernel;
> the lint(1)y NOTREACHED isn't as nice as actual code) so that it is
> apparent to a human that this case cannot be reached.  The presence of
> a do-nothing default case is not typically indicative of unreachable
> code.

We do have __unreachable() in cdefs.h

It should work with both GCC and clang.

Pedro.




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