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Message-Id: <200802042314.18738.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 23:14:18 +1100
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] cast_if_type: allow macros functions which take more than one type.
To create functions which can take two types, but still warn on any
other types, we need a way of casting one type and no others.
To make things more complex, it should correctly handle function args,
NULL, and be usable in initializers. __builtin_choose_expr was introduced
in gcc 3.1 (we need >= 3.2 anyway).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
---
include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
include/linux/compiler-intel.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff -r e6626cc7bdc2 include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h Sun Jan 20 18:51:51 2008 +1100
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h Sun Jan 20 18:57:14 2008 +1100
@@ -53,3 +53,20 @@
#define noinline __attribute__((noinline))
#define __attribute_const__ __attribute__((__const__))
#define __maybe_unused __attribute__((unused))
+
+/**
+ * cast_if_type - allow an alternate type
+ * @expr: the expression to optionally cast
+ * @oktype: the type to allow.
+ * @desttype: the type to cast to.
+ *
+ * This is used to accept a particular alternate type for an expression:
+ * because any other types will not be cast, they will cause a warning as
+ * normal.
+ *
+ * Note that the unnecessary trinary forces functions to devolve into
+ * function pointers as users expect. */
+#define cast_if_type(expr, oktype, desttype) \
+ __builtin_choose_expr(__builtin_types_compatible_p(typeof(1?(expr):NULL), \
+ oktype), \
+ (desttype)(expr), (expr))
diff -r e6626cc7bdc2 include/linux/compiler-intel.h
--- a/include/linux/compiler-intel.h Sun Jan 20 18:51:51 2008 +1100
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-intel.h Sun Jan 20 18:57:14 2008 +1100
@@ -29,3 +29,5 @@
#endif
#define uninitialized_var(x) x
+
+#define cast_if_type(expr, oktype, desttype) ((desttype)(expr))
--
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