svn commit: r216954 - head/sys/kern
Julian Elischer
julian at freebsd.org
Thu Jan 6 09:00:02 UTC 2011
On 1/5/11 11:39 AM, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, John Baldwin wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, January 05, 2011 11:17:20 am Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
>>> On 2011-01-04, John Baldwin wrote:
>>>> Err, no, the point of NOTREACHED is to serve as documentation for
>>>> lint(1), but
>>>> that has subsequently been obsoleted by __dead2.
>>>
>>> style(9) is out of date then?
>>
>> According to bde@'s most recent e-mails, yes.
>
> It's obviously out of date, since its only example of using
> NOTREACHED is after a usage() call, and this usage is missing a
> __dead2. Of course it
> doesn't use NOTREACHED after its 3 exit() calls or its 2 err() calls or
> its 1 errx() call, so its "should" requirement for using NOTREACHED is
> mostly not satisfied by itself.
However I feel that teh notreached comment is as much for the reader
as the compiler/lint.
Removing it makes the code harder to understand for the feeble minded
such as myself.
>
> Bruce
>
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