Re: [PATCH] sparse: Fix BUILD_BUG_ON_{ZERO,NULL} definitions

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:45:12 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote:

> Commit 903c0c7cdc21f2ccb7562a7bbc70289c0c2b16ad ('sparse: define dummy
> BUILD_BUG_ON definition for sparse') left these two broken.  The ZERO
> or NULL suffix specifies what the macro should expand to, not the
> value that would indicate a bug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
> ---
> sparse currently reports a syntax error and no useful warnings for any
> source file which uses one of these macros.  Since module_param() uses
> BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(), that's a lot of source files.
> 
> Ben.

This patch from 2011-MAY-30 also fixes these warnings, but the typecasting
in yours is probably better.  :)

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130677145629121&w=2

Wait, 3.0-rc4 already has the above patch.  Is yours still needed?


>  include/linux/kernel.h |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
> index fb0e732..fccd366 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kernel.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
> @@ -671,8 +671,8 @@ struct sysinfo {
>  
>  #ifdef __CHECKER__
>  #define BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2(n)
> -#define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e)
> -#define BUILD_BUG_ON_NULL(e)
> +#define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) ((size_t)0)
> +#define BUILD_BUG_ON_NULL(e) ((void *)0)
>  #define BUILD_BUG_ON(condition)
>  #else /* __CHECKER__ */
>  
> -- 


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~Randy
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