Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 01:25:45PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Perhaps something like the attached patch is a good idea (I used
>> "BUG:" for now), I wonder?
>>
>> Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 7 ++++++-
>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Yeah, this looks good (and we definitely prefer BUG:, though I am
> responsible for over 1/3 of the existing incidences).
>
> I have been tempted to provide a macro or function for it, and have it
> actually call abort() to trigger a coredump. I.e., basically assert(),
> except unconditional but you get to write a more useful message.
>
> So all of the sites would just become:
>
> BUG("frotz() called with NULL pointer to xyzzy parameter");
>
> or similar.
Yeah, that sounds more sensible (especially the abort() part).
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