Re: [PATCH] debug: fix BUILD_BUG_ON() for non-constant expressions

[Ingo Molnar]

* Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If the user of virtio_has_feature() must pass a compile-time constant 
> then it must be converted to a MACRO, and then the BUILD_BUG_ON will 
> work. Or it should be changed to a BUG_ON() if fbit is a runtime 
> variable.

well, that's the question i'm asking: that sort of proposed 
BUILD_BUG_ON() variantcannot be used in inline functions like 
virtio_has_feature() does. If we get forced back to macros that's not an 
improvement.

Maybe the link-time last-line-of-defense mechanism i posed is the most 
flexible one perhaps after all? (it's ugly too but none of this is 
particularly pretty)

hm?

	Ingo
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