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Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> Oh, but I was talking about the case of the macro being used in an "static
> inline" in a header file, and that inline is not actually _used_
> anywhere..
> 


Ah... but it was talked about in reference to a macro.

Also, since AFAIK BUG() never returns, you may want to have it end with 
for(;;); to let gcc know that any code downstream of a BUG() is dead.

	-hpa


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