abort() missing return-address => useless core file

Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 23:34:08 UTC 2011


On 2011-11-17, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 17 November 2011 14:33:16 Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Bloat?  It's _one_ flipping instruction!  (Two if you do it for exit()
>> and abort()).
>
> incorrect -- you're ignoring the call sites.  by assuming the call never 
> returns, it means the caller doesn't have to waste time saving/restoring 
> state.

You're right -- I overlooked that.

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