Re: BUGed to death

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:22:18 +0200


On Tue, Apr 15 2003, Duncan Sands wrote:
> > If you do that, you must audit every single BUG_ON to make sure the
> > expression doesn't have any side effects.
> >
> > BUG_ON(do_the_good_stuff());
>
> Good point, but easily dealt with (see other posts).

I'm more inclined to agree with the view that it's a tool chain problem,
if the path leading to the bug isn't considered unlikely.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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