[Xen-devel] BUG_ON() vs ASSERT()

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

All,

in
https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-09/msg01201.html
and
https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-09/msg01210.html
Andrew basically suggests that we should switch away from using
ASSERT() and over to BUG_ON() in perhaps quite broad a set of
cases. And honestly I'm not convinced of this: We've been adding
quite a few ASSERT()s over the last years with the aim of doing
sanity checking in debug builds, without adding overhead to non-
debug builds. I can certainly see possible cases where using
BUG_ON() to prevent further possible damage is appropriate, but
I don't think we should overdo here.

Thanks for other's opinions,
Jan


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