[PATCH] make powerpc BUG_ON() OK with pointers and bitwise
Paul Mackerras
paulus at samba.org
Fri Jul 27 09:30:38 EST 2007
Al Viro writes:
> Since powerpc insists on printing the _value_ of condition
We don't _print_ the value of the condition, we give it to a
conditional-trap instruction which will trap if it is non-zero.
> and on casting it to long... At least let's make it a force-cast.
The long cast is to make sure it's sign-extended to the full register
width. Adding __force looks fine.
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
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