Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] avoid clobbering registers with J_ASSERT macro

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On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 09:18 -0400, Chris Snook wrote:
> 
> > > How's about we just remove that printk?  Do
> > > 
> > > #define J_ASSERT(e) BUG_ON(e)?

ITYM #define J_ASSERT(e) BUG_ON(!e)

> It did.  The original J_ASSERT predates BUG() entirely, and was added so
> that we got the file/line-no information.  But with the current BUG()
> macro, I can't see any reason for J_ASSERT still to try to gather that
> information itself.

Do you still want to keep J_ASSERT, or should all uses of it be replaced
with BUG_ON?

(to put it another way; if you were writing JBD now, would you add your
own J_ASSERT, or would you just use BUG_ON directly?)

-- 
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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