Followup to: <E12AyZR-0002gU-00@devel2.axiom.internal>
By author: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
>
> In order to use cpu_to_le16() et al. in case statements, for example:
>
> switch (status) {
> case cpu_to_le16(CONSTANT_XYZ):
>
>
> ... I need to define new macros __constant_cpu_to_le16(), etc.
>
> Ideally, gcc would be able to tell that it's constant, and I would be able to
> use the 'normal' cpu_to_le16 macro. But as someone's evidently already given
> up on that with __constant_htonl() etc., I'm going to assume that it's not
> currently possible.
>
Given that gcc has a __builtin_constant_p(x), you ought to be able to
do:
#define cpu_to_le16(x) ( __builtin_constant_p(x) ? __constant_cpu_to_le16(x) : __cpu_to_le16(x) )
-hpa
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