Re: [PATCH 1/1 V2] x86, apic: Make "broken BIOS!!" messages unique

From: John Villalovos
Date: Mon Feb 07 2011 - 16:34:00 EST


On 02/07/2011 04:25 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
On 02/07/2011 05:58 AM, John Villalovos wrote:
The 'inconceivable' messages are because it should not be possible to reach
those code paths.

More standard terminology would be "invalid" or "impossible".
"Inconceivable" sounds like a combination of legal values which just
don't make sense.
To be honest I used it in homage to The Princess Bride movie. And frankly it is 'inconcievable' that code will ever be called :)

John
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