Re: [patch 10/26] SLUB: Faster more efficient slab determinationfor __kmalloc.

[Nick Piggin]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:38:01 -0700 (PDT)
> Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > Ok and BUILD_BUG_ON really works? Had some bad experiences with it.
>
>
> hm, I don't recall any problems, apart from its very obscure error
> reporting.
>
> But if it breaks, we get an opportunity to fix it ;)

It doesn't work outside function scope, which can be annoying. The
workaround is to just create a dummy function and put the BUILD_BUG_ON
inside that.

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