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Date:      Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:50:15 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Jaakko Heinonen <jh@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r216954 - head/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <4D258247.5030707@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110106062530.Y1027@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <201101041316.p04DGSo6037042@svn.freebsd.org> <201101041314.08949.jhb@freebsd.org> <20110105161720.GA1388@a91-153-123-205.elisa-laajakaista.fi> <201101051144.56940.jhb@freebsd.org> <20110106062530.Y1027@besplex.bde.org>

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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 style(9) is out of date then?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 It's obviously out of date, since its only example of using 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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