From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750816AbVIJNWJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:22:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750825AbVIJNWJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:22:09 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:57241 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750816AbVIJNWI (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:22:08 -0400 Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:22:03 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andi Kleen Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbeulich@novell.com, reiser@namesys.com Subject: Re: [1/2] Make BUILD_BUG_ON fail at compile time. Message-ID: <20050910132202.GA877@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andi Kleen , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbeulich@novell.com, reiser@namesys.com References: <4322CBD8.mailE1M1FX8RR@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4322CBD8.mailE1M1FX8RR@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 02:04:40PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Make BUILD_BUG_ON fail at compile time. > > Force a compiler error instead of a link error, because they > are easier to track down. Idea stolen from code by Jan Beulich. > > Cc: jbeulich@novell.com reiser4 seems to have a duplicate version of this, Hans, can you switch over to the common one once this is in?