Re: linux-next: tree build failure

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>]

>>> Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com> 30.09.09 01:39 >>>
>On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 10:28 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> Hollis Blanchard  09/29/09 2:00 AM >>>
>> >First, I think there is a real bug here, and the code should read like
>> >this (to match the comment):
>> >    /* type has to be known at build time for optimization */
>> >-    BUILD_BUG_ON(__builtin_constant_p(type));
>> >+    BUILD_BUG_ON(!__builtin_constant_p(type));
>> >
>> >However, I get the same build error *both* ways, i.e.
>> >__builtin_constant_p(type) evaluates to both 0 and 1? Either that, or
>> >the new BUILD_BUG_ON() macro isn't working...
>>=20
>> No, at this point of the compilation process it's neither zero nor one,
>> it's simply considered non-constant by the compiler at that stage
>> (this builtin is used for optimization, not during parsing, and the
>> error gets generated when the body of the function gets parsed,
>> not when code gets generated from it).
>
>I think I see what you're saying. Do you have a fix to suggest?

The one Rusty suggested the other day may help here. I don't like it
as a drop-in replacement for BUILD_BUG_ON() though (due to it
deferring the error generated to the linking stage), I'd rather view
this as an improvement to MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON() (which should
then be used here).

Jan