Given that the code is unreachable, using warn() seems somewhat irrelevant. :-)

I can see your point though in terms of being able to grep for
possible problems.

Steve

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:57 PM, nathan binkert <n...@binkert.org> wrote:
> IMHO, things like this shouldn't be comments, but should rather use
> hack() or warn() to notify the user that something fishy might be
> going on.
>
>  Nate
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Brad Beckmann <brad.beckm...@amd.com> wrote:
>> changeset b78b3a9e205f in /z/repo/m5
>> details: http://repo.m5sim.org/m5?cmd=changeset;node=b78b3a9e205f
>> description:
>>        ruby: improved isReadWrite fix me comment
>>
>> diffstat:
>>
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> src/mem/ruby/system/RubyPort.cc |    6 ++++--
>>
>> diffs (16 lines):
>>
>> diff -r 6bf327b128c6 -r b78b3a9e205f src/mem/ruby/system/RubyPort.cc
>> --- a/src/mem/ruby/system/RubyPort.cc   Sun Mar 21 21:22:22 2010 -0700
>> +++ b/src/mem/ruby/system/RubyPort.cc   Mon Mar 22 11:19:17 2010 -0700
>> @@ -230,8 +230,10 @@
>>             type = RubyRequestType_ST;
>>         } else if (pkt->isReadWrite()) {
>>             //
>> -            // Fix me. Just because the packet is a read/write request does 
>> not
>> -            // necessary mean it is a read-modify-write atomic operation.
>> +            // Fix me.  This conditional will never be executed because
>> +            // isReadWrite() is just an OR of isRead() and isWrite().
>> +            // Furthermore, just because the packet is a read/write request 
>> does
>> +            // not necessary mean it is a read-modify-write atomic 
>> operation.
>>             //
>>             type = RubyRequestType_RMW_Write;
>>         } else {
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