Messages in this thread | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] pagecache-2.3.9-H3, bmap & ext2fs cleanup patch | Date | Sat, 26 Jun 1999 22:03:24 -0400 (EDT) |
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>> Coherency problems are bugs which can be tested for with debug code. >> #define CHECK_BH_BITS 1 > > Ehh.. > > I much prefer code that cannot be buggy, to code that has to > have asserts for bugs.
Ingo's way: Random bit patterns tend to be illegal. Debug code can check for illegal values.
Your way: Random bit patterns are perfectly valid, but still bad! Bugs will be more difficult to catch.
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