[QUESTION] MOD_INC/MOD_DEC: useful to check for correct usage?

Dawson Engler (engler@csl.Stanford.EDU)
Wed, 4 Apr 2001 18:25:08 -0700 (PDT)


Hi,

in the old days you couldn't call a sleeping function in a module
before doing a MOD_INC or after doing a MOD_DEC. Then some safety nets
were added that made these obsolete (in some number of places). I was
told that people had decided to potentially get rid of all safety
nets. Is this true? Is it worthwhile to have a checker for these two
rules?
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