cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_ioctl.c

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Thu Mar 24 11:25:03 PST 2005


On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 01:33:53PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 24 March 2005 12:51 pm, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > brooks      2005-03-24 17:51:15 UTC
> >
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/compat/linux     linux_ioctl.c
> >   Log:
> >   Compile errors are way more useful then panics later.
> >
> >   Replace a KASSERT of LINUX_IFNAMSIZ == IFNAMSIZ with a preprocessor
> >   check and #error message.  This will prevent nasty suprises if users
> >   change IFNAMSIZ without updating the linux code appropriatly.
> 
> There's a CTASSERT() macro that you can use for compile time assertions.

Ah, intresting.  It produces a less informative error, but I guess the
fact that it should work on any C compiler makes up for it.  I'll switch
to that.

Thanks,
Brooks

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