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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.

  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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