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

[Stefan Farfeleder]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:25:02AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
> 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.

Do you imply there's a C compiler which can't handle #if and #error?

Stefan