Re: [PATCH 1/5] rust: iov: add iov_iter abstractions for ITER_SOURCE

Andreas Hindborg
2025-03-22T22:05:32Z

"Miguel Ojeda" <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> Don't we have some kind of `build_assert` macro to do this? If not,
>> maybe we should.
>
> `static_assert!` is the one (`build_assert!` is the other one, which
> is a heavier hammer that should only be used if really needed).
>
> Though our `static_assert!` does not have support for an (optional)
> message -- we could add that, perhaps as a good first issue. In this
> case it is not a big deal either way.
>
>> How did you arrive at this conclusion? In the discussions with Ralph on
>
> Ralf?

Sorry, misspell. Ralf Jung, added to CC.

Best regards,
Andreas Hindborg