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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: jt@hpl.hp.com
Cc: irda-users@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [CHECKER] 6 memory leaks
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:53:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030421205355.GD8978@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030421202728.GA25358@bougret.hpl.hp.com>

William Lee Irwin III wrote :
>> I'm in terror. ASSERT()? return NULL in a macro argument?
>> Any chance of cleaning that up a bit while you're at it?

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 01:27:28PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> 	Rather than fixing imaginary non-existing bugs, I prefer to
> spend my time fixing real bugs that byte real users. This construct is
> perfectly sound and valid, and it needs to be done in this way, the
> only issue is that someone should rename "ASSERT" into "IRDA_ASSERT".

The construct is a Lovecraftian horror. I've already lost my lunch once
over extremely disgusting code today, and I don't care to intentionally
read or run IRDA code ever again.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-21 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-21 20:27 [CHECKER] 6 memory leaks Jean Tourrilhes
2003-04-21 20:53 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-19  2:50 Andy Chou
2003-04-19  9:44 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-04-19  9:55   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-19 10:02     ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-04-19 10:13       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-19 12:08   ` James Morris
2003-04-19 12:28     ` Muli Ben-Yehuda

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