Re: [PATCH] build_bug.h: add wrapper for _Static_assert

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 15:09:16 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun,  3 Feb 2019 20:24:00 +0100 Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > BUILD_BUG_ON() is a little annoying, since it cannot be used outside
> > function scope. So one cannot put assertions about the sizeof() a
> > struct next to the struct definition, but has to hide that in some
> > more or less arbitrary function.
> > 
> > Since gcc 4.6 (which is now also the required minimum), there is
> > support for the C11 _Static_assert in all C modes, including gnu89. So
> > add a simple wrapper for that.
> > 
> > _Static_assert() requires a message argument, which is usually quite
> > redundant (and I believe that bug got fixed at least in newer C++
> > standards), but we can easily work around that with a little macro
> > magic, making it optional.
> > 
> > For example, adding
> > 
> >   static_assert(sizeof(struct printf_spec) == 8);
> > 
> > in vsprintf.c and modifying that struct to violate it, one gets
> > 
> > ./include/linux/build_bug.h:78:41: error: static assertion failed: "sizeof(struct printf_spec) == 8"
> >  #define __static_assert(expr, msg, ...) _Static_assert(expr, "" msg "")
> > 
> > godbolt.org suggests that _Static_assert() has been support by clang
> > since at least 3.0.0.
> > 
> 
> It would be (very) nice to actually use this macro in a few places so
> it gets its build testing while in -next.

ie, just about every BUILD_BUG_ON in mm/ could use this.  Let's switch
a few?