[PATCH] arm64: insn: Add return statements after BUG_ON()

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 06:02:06PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 05:42:33PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> >  	default:
> >  		BUG_ON(1);
> > +		return 0;
> >  	}

> Wouldn't there be less lines if we initialise insn to 0 in these
> functions?

In general that's bad practice since it means that you loose the benefit
of flow analysis on that variable throughout the function - it will shut
the warning up but if someone introduces a bug later on the compiler
won't be able to tell them about it.
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