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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 14:50:28 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: BUGed to death
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Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 01:55:40PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> 
>  > True - however I should have included some more info ... Andrew worked
>  > out that some of the hottest ones lead to a null ptr dereference
>  > immediately afterwards anyways, so they're actually pointless.
> 
> Erk, that doesn't sound good. Example ?
> 

	if (foo == NULL)
		BUG();
	*foo = bar;

The BUG is a waste of space.