Re: BUGed to death

[Dave Jones]

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.

		Dave