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SubjectRe: [patch] pagecache-2.3.9-H3, bmap & ext2fs cleanup patch


On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> >
> > I much prefer code that cannot be buggy, to code that has to
> > have asserts for bugs.

Albert, do you have problems parsing the above sentence?

> Ingo's way:
> Random bit patterns tend to be illegal. Debug code can check
> for illegal values.

"Ingo: we have random bit patterns. We mark them illegal and have extra
code to check them"

> Your way:
> Random bit patterns are perfectly valid, but still bad!
> Bugs will be more difficult to catch.

"Me: we can't have random bitpatterns".

Linus


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