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Kernel prepatch 3.11-rc4

Kernel prepatch 3.11-rc4

Posted Aug 14, 2013 13:22 UTC (Wed) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
In reply to: Kernel prepatch 3.11-rc4 by mpr22
Parent article: Kernel prepatch 3.11-rc4

For this you first have to spot the error. Using one style you get help from the compiler, while with the other you need angry users and some debugger voodoo.

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Kernel prepatch 3.11-rc4

Posted Aug 14, 2013 15:25 UTC (Wed) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

The compiler can be (fairly easily) modified to alert the user to the errors that the order of comparison operands people like me find natural makes possible. People-like-me's brains cannot be easily modified to find the order of comparison operands people-like-you find sufficiently cautious natural.


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