Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 0/25] Generic Red-Black Trees (still WIP) | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:28:36 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 20:02 -0500, Daniel Santos wrote: > >> Q&A > >> === > >> Q: Why did you add BUILD_BUG_ON_NON_CONST() and > >> BUILD_BUG_ON_NON_CONST42()? > > A: Because BUILD_BUG_ON_NON_CONST42() will crash if it does not result > > in the answer to life, the universe and everything! > > By the way, I have a theory before time, God was writing code on some > cosmic computer (beyond our understanding, of course) when he > accidentally tried to divide by zero, resulting in a core dump that we > now know as the universe we live in. So thus, we are just the excrement > of some celestial computer after it failed to properly execute its code. >
And that operation on which God failed on was:
ans = 42 / 0
Which totally explains the point where... "to understand the answer, you must first understand the question".
-- Steve
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