Re: BUGed to death

Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Mon, 14 Apr 2003 22:17:40 +0100


On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:10:05PM +0200, Duncan Sands wrote:

> Some places don't seem to know about BUG_ON, for example
> (from include/linux/skbuff.h):

Right, BUG_ON was added later (possibly for the purpose of
marking unlikely branches). I see your point now about gcc
not recognising branches which are going to be unlikely, but
whether or not it should is questionable IMO.

Dave

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