Re: BUGed to death

[Duncan Sands]

> 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.

It is questionable.  Since even in core kernel code there are
many places with
	if (cond)
		BUG();
rather than
	BUG_ON(cond);
it may be worth seeing if converting them makes a difference
(increases code size though).

Ciao,

Duncan.