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Date:      Sat, 22 Feb 2020 09:25:18 -0700
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r358248 - head/sys/vm
Message-ID:  <a3b2125de10d214d6e422d183f1fdc7e0e38e014.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <202002221620.01MGK46E072303@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <202002221620.01MGK46E072303@repo.freebsd.org>

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On Sat, 2020-02-22 at 16:20 +0000, Kyle Evans wrote:
> Author: kevans
> Date: Sat Feb 22 16:20:04 2020
> New Revision: 358248
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/358248
> 
> Log:
>   vm_radix: prefer __builtin_unreachable() to an unreachable panic()
>   
>   This provides the needed hint to GCC and offers an annotation for readers to
>   observe that it's in-fact impossible to hit this point. We'll get hit with a
>   a -Wswitch error if the enum applicable to the switch above were to get
>   expanded without the new value(s) being handled.
> 
> Modified:
>   head/sys/vm/vm_radix.c
> 
> Modified: head/sys/vm/vm_radix.c
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/sys/vm/vm_radix.c	Sat Feb 22 13:23:27 2020	(r358247)
> +++ head/sys/vm/vm_radix.c	Sat Feb 22 16:20:04 2020	(r358248)
> @@ -208,8 +208,7 @@ vm_radix_node_load(smrnode_t *p, enum vm_radix_access 
>  	case SMR:
>  		return (smr_entered_load(p, vm_radix_smr));
>  	}
> -	/* This is unreachable, silence gcc. */
> -	panic("vm_radix_node_get: Unknown access type");
> +	__unreachable();
>  }
>  
>  static __inline void

What does __unreachable() do if the code ever becomes reachable?  Like
if a new enum value is added and this switch doesn't get updated?

-- Ian





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