Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] ppce500_spin: Replace assert by hw_error (fixes compiler warning)

[Alexander Graf]

On 28.04.2012, at 17:52, Stefan Weil wrote:

> The default case in function spin_read should never be reached,
> therefore the old code used assert(0) to abort QEMU.
> 
> This does not work when QEMU is compiled with macro NDEBUG defined.
> In this case (and also when the compiler does not know that assert
> never returns), there is a compiler warning because of the missing
> return value.
> 
> Using hw_error allows an improved error message and aborts always.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <address@hidden>

Thanks, applied to ppc-next. The patch didn't show up on patchworks btw, not 
sure what went wrong there.


Alex