linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO -> BUILD_BUG_OR

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Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:14:38 +0100
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
CC:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@....de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO -> BUILD_BUG_OR_ZERO

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> Rusty Russell wrote:
>> > OTOH, BUILD_BUG_OR_ZERO says what happens: either it's a build bug, or
>> > it's zero.
>>
>> What about ZERO_UNLESS_BUILD_BUG_ON(e)? It's long though...
> 
> how often is this going to be used?  it's not like the tree is
> currently awash in calls to BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO as it is.

Most of the time it will hidden as a macro-in-a-macro, like in
ARRAY_SIZE().  So the length of the name doesn't matter much.  But then,
the _name_ itself doesn't matter much because authors of public macros
are the primary user group, not John Driverhacker.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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