From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, torvalds@osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove useless assertions from reiserfs
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:46:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030811184650.GC3884@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9D9C5DC650E@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz>
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 08:33:13PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> I always thought that assertions are just for that - if you can hit them
> without some unexpected event/bug, you have a SERIOUS problem.
Not for when you explicitly code things above so it really cannot
happen. An assertion is more for the case "I really hope someone
doesn't pass me x in state y" type assertions than "I really hope
the compiler did the right thing with the previous loop"
Dave
--
Dave Jones http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-11 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-11 18:33 [PATCH] Remove useless assertions from reiserfs Petr Vandrovec
2003-08-11 18:46 ` Dave Jones [this message]
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2003-08-11 16:48 davej
2003-08-11 17:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-11 17:52 ` Dave Jones
2003-08-11 17:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-11 18:00 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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