On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 09:38:40PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:34:33 -0700
> "Mrunal Gawade" <mrunal.gawade@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Does Linux kernel has assert? I am trying to port a user land program with
> > asserts and want to use them in kernel too. What is the header file in which
> > its declared, if it is. I tried "grep" and other commands but could not
> > find.
>
> You can use BUG_ON() with a condition that should not happen
> between the braces.
>
> assert(foo) is the equivalent of BUG_ON(!(foo))
Please use WARN_ON() if it isn't _really_ fatal.
BUG_ON() is panic(), and it's more user friendly to give the admin the
chance to properly shutdown the system.
cu
Adrian
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