Re: [PATCH v3 04/14] lib/vsprintf.c: expand field_width to 24 bits

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 23:28 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 12:54 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 21:51 +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
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> > > I didn't find a BUILD_BUG/compiletime_assertion/... which would work
> > > outside function context, so for now I just open-coded it.
> > > 
> > > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2034835
[]
> I like most of the stuff here, though, can we avoid open-coded
> BUILD_BUG_ON()?

Not so far as I can know.  Maybe another generic could be added.

It doesn't seem this specific check is all that useful.

sizeof(struct printf_spec) != 8

I suppose there could be an assert in some function instead.
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