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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:31:54 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: akpm@...ux-foundation.org Cc: JBeulich@...ell.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix BUILD_BUG_ON() and a couple of bogus uses of it From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:15:04 -0700 > There's a shortcoming in the current BUILD_BUG_ON() - it silently does > nothing if passed a non-constant arg. > > I suspect that in the 2.6.31 code, that BUILD_BUG_ON() just does > nothing at all, and that Jan's patch is now exposing this. It might be > compiler-version dependent too. > > > <tests it> > > Yup, on base 2.6.31, this: Ok, I'll have to either change this function to a macro or get rid of the check. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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