From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751235Ab2IZB2m (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:28:42 -0400 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.122]:15621 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750950Ab2IZB2i (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:28:38 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=Hsb06jvS c=1 sm=0 a=rXTBtCOcEpjy1lPqhTCpEQ==:17 a=mNMOxpOpBa8A:10 a=b9PsUg4mK9wA:10 a=5SG0PmZfjMsA:10 a=Q9fys5e9bTEA:10 a=meVymXHHAAAA:8 a=TSMuYQ0iYaAA:10 a=6LM_PC-HNDL-7sbMh5kA:9 a=PUjeQqilurYA:10 a=rXTBtCOcEpjy1lPqhTCpEQ==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 74.67.115.198 Message-ID: <1348622916.22822.44.camel@gandalf.local.home> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/25] Generic Red-Black Trees (still WIP) From: Steven Rostedt To: Daniel Santos Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, LKML Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:28:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <50625436.1020501@att.net> References: <1348615467-9850-1-git-send-email-daniel.santos@pobox.com> <1348618742.22822.39.camel@gandalf.local.home> <50625436.1020501@att.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.3-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 20:02 -0500, Daniel Santos wrote: > >> Q&A > >> === > >> Q: Why did you add BUILD_BUG_ON_NON_CONST() and > >> BUILD_BUG_ON_NON_CONST42()? > > A: Because BUILD_BUG_ON_NON_CONST42() will crash if it does not result > > in the answer to life, the universe and everything! > > By the way, I have a theory before time, God was writing code on some > cosmic computer (beyond our understanding, of course) when he > accidentally tried to divide by zero, resulting in a core dump that we > now know as the universe we live in. So thus, we are just the excrement > of some celestial computer after it failed to properly execute its code. > And that operation on which God failed on was: ans = 42 / 0 Which totally explains the point where... "to understand the answer, you must first understand the question". -- Steve