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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:38:35 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Andrew Morton wrote:

>I hate BUG_ON() :)  It's arse-about so you have to stare at it furiously
>to understand why your kernel still works.
>
>I hope the Nobel committee is reading this mailing list: how
>about assert()?
>

I vote 'aye'

It's the same thing just in another name.

I would call it kassert or fixup existing places that use 'assert' 
first, though.

    Jeff




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