From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] debug: fix BUILD_BUG_ON() for non-constant expressions
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:19:09 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808251119.09916.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48AAF5F7.6040709@panasas.com>
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 02:33:59 Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> If the user of virtio_has_feature() must pass a compile-time constant then
> it must be converted to a MACRO, and then the BUILD_BUG_ON will work.
> Or it should be changed to a BUG_ON() if fbit is a runtime variable.
I was (ab)using the current slackness of BUILD_BUG_ON() to be a noop on
non-constants. We can replace with a BUG_ON if we fix BUILD_BUG_ON() to
insist on a compile-time constant; I think that's still an overall win.
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-25 4:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-16 10:09 [PATCH] BUILD_BUG_ON sucks Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-16 10:55 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-16 20:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-17 10:32 ` [PATCH] debug: fix BUILD_BUG_ON() for non-constant expressions Ingo Molnar
2008-08-17 16:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-17 17:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-17 17:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-17 18:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-17 18:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-18 1:09 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-18 7:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-18 9:55 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-08-18 12:32 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-08-19 13:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-19 16:33 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-08-20 10:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-20 12:31 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-08-20 12:39 ` adobriyan
2008-08-20 13:07 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-08-21 12:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-25 1:19 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2008-08-20 13:21 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-08-16 17:46 ` [PATCH] BUILD_BUG_ON sucks Andrew Morton
2008-08-17 12:19 ` Theodore Tso
2008-08-17 16:33 ` Andrew Morton
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