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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 0/25] Generic Red-Black Trees (still WIP)
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    On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 20:02 -0500, Daniel Santos wrote:
    > >> Q&A
    > >> ===
    > >> Q: Why did you add BUILD_BUG_ON_NON_CONST() and
    > >> BUILD_BUG_ON_NON_CONST42()?
    > > A: Because BUILD_BUG_ON_NON_CONST42() will crash if it does not result
    > > in the answer to life, the universe and everything!
    >
    > By the way, I have a theory before time, God was writing code on some
    > cosmic computer (beyond our understanding, of course) when he
    > accidentally tried to divide by zero, resulting in a core dump that we
    > now know as the universe we live in. So thus, we are just the excrement
    > of some celestial computer after it failed to properly execute its code.
    >

    And that operation on which God failed on was:

    ans = 42 / 0

    Which totally explains the point where... "to understand the answer, you
    must first understand the question".

    -- Steve



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