From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
Duncan Sands <baldrick@wanadoo.fr>,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BUGed to death
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 14:40:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030415124033.GN9776@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030415123641.GA13966@suse.de>
On Tue, Apr 15 2003, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 02:31:34PM +0200, Jens Axboe 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());
>
> Sure, but such a construct looks really bad anyway.
> Relying on side-effects of whats essentially a debug macro
> sounds very dodgy.
>
> foo = do_the_good_stuff();
> BUG_ON (foo==baz)
>
> Would be a better way of expressing this.
Oh I agree, it wasn't an example of good code :). It still needs to be
audited though.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-15 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-14 20:19 BUGed to death Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-14 20:40 ` Duncan Sands
2003-04-14 21:02 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-14 21:10 ` Duncan Sands
2003-04-14 21:17 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-15 11:57 ` Duncan Sands
2003-04-15 12:05 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-15 14:39 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-23 15:08 ` Duncan Sands
2003-04-14 21:00 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-14 20:55 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-14 21:08 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-14 21:50 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-14 21:55 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-15 0:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-15 12:01 ` Duncan Sands
2003-04-15 12:31 ` Jens Axboe
2003-04-15 12:36 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-15 12:40 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2003-04-15 12:49 ` Sean Neakums
2003-04-15 12:52 ` Sean Neakums
2003-04-15 13:01 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-15 13:17 ` Jens Axboe
2003-04-15 13:55 ` Duncan Sands
2003-04-15 14:22 ` Jens Axboe
2003-04-15 14:35 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-15 14:39 ` Duncan Sands
2003-04-15 14:45 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-15 14:58 ` Duncan Sands
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-15 14:30 rwhron
2003-04-15 15:57 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-15 16:11 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-15 16:42 ` Michael Buesch
2003-04-15 16:45 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-15 18:33 Chuck Ebbert
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