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From: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	davem@davemloft.net,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-ipv4-tcp.c-fix-warning-from-older-compilers.patch
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:30:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B226590.6030608@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1260455516.2783.0.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com>

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> You can use BUILD_BUG_ON() to ensure that remains true.
> 
Another fine undocumented Linux Kernel feature.  In the absence of
standardized functions that check for buffer overruns, that's just
the ticket!

Kinda the opposite conditional of static assert, but I'm pretty sure
static assert wasn't working in gcc until a year or so ago.  That's
why I used the more old-fashioned test instead.  I'd no idea those
triggered a warning in some versions of gcc -- I never trusted 4.0.x,
and had plenty of problems with 4.1.x, too.

Thanks, I'll resubmit.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-11 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200912090045.nB90jTaO010647@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-09  1:45 ` + net-ipv4-tcpc-fix-warning.patch added to -mm tree William Allen Simpson
2009-12-09  2:08   ` Andrew Morton
2009-12-09  4:07     ` David Miller
2009-12-10 13:48     ` William Allen Simpson
2009-12-10 14:16       ` [PATCH] net-ipv4-tcp.c-fix-warning-from-older-compilers.patch William Allen Simpson
2009-12-10 14:31         ` Ben Hutchings
2009-12-11 15:30           ` William Allen Simpson [this message]
2009-12-11 15:38             ` [PATCH v2] net-ipv4-tcp.c-fix-warning-for-older-compilers.patch William Allen Simpson
2009-12-10 15:31         ` [PATCH] net-ipv4-tcp.c-fix-warning-from-older-compilers.patch Eric Dumazet
2009-12-10 21:46           ` David Miller
2009-12-11  6:50             ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-12-11 15:51               ` William Allen Simpson
2009-12-11 19:25                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-12-11 22:25                 ` David Miller
2009-12-11 15:49           ` William Allen Simpson
2009-12-11 22:24             ` David Miller
2009-12-10 21:43         ` David Miller

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