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From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: BUGed to death
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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> 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());


  Sounds like a candidate for machine audit.  You can declare
pure functions in GCC 2.96+ but I see no way to assert that an
expression is pure...



--
 Chuck