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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
cc: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kernel assertions 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 07:01:23 -0700
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>In our code:
>	void
>	foo(char *buf, int i
>	{
>		ASSERT(buf,("foo(%p, %d): buf is zero",buf,i));
>		...
>	}

   Blech. Macros are evil unless they actually do something real to improve
the code. Please, let's NOT adopt this practice.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project