From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/25] Generic Red-Black Trees (still WIP) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:28:36 -0400 Message-ID: <1348622916.22822.44.camel@gandalf.local.home> References: <1348615467-9850-1-git-send-email-daniel.santos@pobox.com> <1348618742.22822.39.camel@gandalf.local.home> <50625436.1020501@att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <50625436.1020501@att.net> Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Santos Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, LKML List-Id: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 20:02 -0500, Daniel Santos wrote: > >> Q&A > >> === > >> Q: Why did you add BUILD_BUG_ON_NON_CONST() and > >> BUILD_BUG_ON_NON_CONST42()? > > A: Because BUILD_BUG_ON_NON_CONST42() will crash if it does not result > > in the answer to life, the universe and everything! > > By the way, I have a theory before time, God was writing code on some > cosmic computer (beyond our understanding, of course) when he > accidentally tried to divide by zero, resulting in a core dump that we > now know as the universe we live in. So thus, we are just the excrement > of some celestial computer after it failed to properly execute its code. > And that operation on which God failed on was: ans = 42 / 0 Which totally explains the point where... "to understand the answer, you must first understand the question". -- Steve