Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:41:12 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [patch 10/26] SLUB: Faster more efficient slab determination for __kmalloc. |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:38:01 -0700 (PDT) > Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote: > > >>Ok and BUILD_BUG_ON really works? Had some bad experiences with it. > > > hm, I don't recall any problems, apart from its very obscure error > reporting. > > But if it breaks, we get an opportunity to fix it ;)
It doesn't work outside function scope, which can be annoying. The workaround is to just create a dummy function and put the BUILD_BUG_ON inside that.
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