linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] utilize _Static_assert() for BUILD_BUG

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Date:	Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:43:18 +0000
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...e.com>
To:	"Daniel Santos" <daniel.santos@...ox.com>,
	"Rusty Russell" <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	<david.daney@...ium.com>, <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] utilize _Static_assert() for BUILD_BUG_ON() when
 the compiler supports it

>>> On 13.12.12 at 01:29, Daniel Santos <danielfsantos@....net> wrote:
> Wow, it's really easy to miss parallel development on the same issue.  
> Sorry for my late response to this thread.  I started another thread 
> addressing these issues (as well as a few others) back in September 
> (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/28/1136).  I've finally gotten ACKs from 
> maintainers with v6 of the patches (here 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/20/621) and I'm just waiting for 3.8-rc1 
> to re-submit them.  I actually submitted these patches back in June as 
> part of a larger patch set, but broke it apart in September (I had way 
> to many changes for one patch set)

Since yours is apparently ready to go in, but doesn't use
_Static_assert, I guess I'll wait for it to appear until I re-work
whatever might be left to actually make use of _Static_assert.

Jan

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