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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, pavel@ucw.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: More cleanups for swsusp
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:03:39 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040122130339.009eeb7d.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040121183938.GE14797@waste.org>

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:39:38 -0600
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:

> > >  3) BUG_ON(complex condition expression) is much less clear than:
> > > 
> > >  	if (complex condition expression)
> > >  		BUG();
> 
> Disagree. All BUG_ON() stuff should read like:
> 
> /* check that impossible stuff didn't happen, move along, nothing to see */
> BUG_ON(...);

You can disagree all you like.

But Linus only allowed BUG_ON() because of the branch-prediction problem,
preferring explicit "if (x) BUG()".  I happen to agree with him, especially
if x is a complex expression.

Rusty.
-- 
   there are those who do and those who hang on and you don't see too
   many doers quoting their contemporaries.  -- Larry McVoy

      reply	other threads:[~2004-01-22  4:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-20 22:52 More cleanups for swsusp Pavel Machek
2004-01-20 23:13 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-20 23:25   ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-21  5:10   ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-22  0:17     ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-21  5:14 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-21  5:30   ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-21 18:39     ` Matt Mackall
2004-01-22  2:03       ` Rusty Russell [this message]

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