Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-m68k: Remove custom qemu_assert() function

[Peter Maydell]

On 12 March 2014 13:24, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> Remove the custom qemu_assert() function defined by target-m68k/translate.c
> in favour of either using glib g_assert_not_reached() (for the genuinely
> can't-happen cases) or cpu_abort() (for the "this isn't implemented",
> in line with other unimplemented cases in the target).
>
> This has the benefit of silencing some clang warnings about
> variables used while uninitialized (which are emitted because
> clang can't figure out that qemu_assert(0, something) never
> returns.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>

Andreas pointed out that we've had one attempt to fix this
late last year:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-12/msg02177.html
which didn't work because hw_assert() is not present in user-mode
compiles. This version of the patch doesn't suffer from that issue.

thanks
-- PMM