Hans Reiser writes: > Stephen Pollei wrote: > > > > > > >Also note my opinion, doesn't really count if you grep the kernel > >sources for pollei, you won't find anything. > > > > > > > Your opinion counts, but lets see what Nikita says before I say > anything. Nikita is more expert than I in regards to compiler tricks.
That sort of guards was useful early in reiser4 debugging, when a lot of checks and assertions was added (specifically, because reiser4 has many levels of debugging), but I am not sure source code clutter is justified now. Nikita.