Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] tcg: Jump after always false condition

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 at 18:23, Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net> wrote:
>
> Unreachable code in an error handling block is listed in issue
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2030.
>
> After removing this code, the `fail` label is now immediately followed
> by a test whose condition can never be true when coming explicitly
> via this label. Moving the label down preserves the fall-through
> case while avoiding testing an always false condition.
>
> Changes from v1:
> - Add a comment explaining that `buf_rx` does not require cleanup
> - Use a unique cleanup path for the function by setting `errno` before
>   jumping to the cleanup block.
>
> Samuel Tardieu (2):
>   tcg: Remove unreachable code
>   tcg: Make the cleanup-on-error path unique
>
>  tcg/region.c | 10 ++++------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

RTH: I'm assuming you'll take this via your tcg tree.

thanks
-- PMM