Re: BUGed to death

Chuck Ebbert (76306.1226@compuserve.com)
Tue, 15 Apr 2003 14:33:52 -0400

> 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());

Sounds like a candidate for machine audit. You can declare
pure functions in GCC 2.96+ but I see no way to assert that an
expression is pure...

--
 Chuck
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