On 18 April 2012 14:16, Peter Jeremy <peterjer...@acm.org> wrote: > On 2012-Apr-18 01:39:14 +0000, Andrew Thompson <thom...@freebsd.org> wrote: >>Log: >> Remove KASSERTS, they do not add any value here since the pointer is about >> to >> be derefernced anyway. > > Could you give a bit more background to this commit. You get a crash in > both cases but the KASSERT() at least tells you which variable was NULL > without needing to trawl through the crashdump to find what caused the > NULL pointer dereference trap.
Out of the five linkstate function pointers in this block of code only these two had a kassert so it was just about making it more consistent. It is something that is not possible within the code anyway (sans memory corruption). Andrew _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
