Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Jun 1999 19:43:39 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] pagecache-2.3.9-H3, bmap & ext2fs cleanup patch |
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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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