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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/2] kernel.h: Add BUILD_BUG() macro.
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David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
>
> We can place this in definitions that we expect the compiler to remove
> by dead code elimination. If this assertion fails, we get a nice
> error message at build time.
>
> The GCC function attribute error("message") was added in version 4.3,
> so we define a new macro __linktime_error(message) to expand to this
> for GCC-4.3 and later. This will give us an error diagnostic from the
> compiler on the line that fails. For other compilers
> __linktime_error(message) expands to nothing, and we have to be
> content with a link time error, but at least we will still get a build
> error.
>
> BUILD_BUG() expands to the undefined function __build_bug_failed() and
> will fail at link time if the compiler ever emits code for it. On
> GCC-4.3 and later, attribute((error())) is used so that the failure
> will be noted at compile time instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


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