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bug.h: Make BUILD_BUG_ON generate compile-time error
authorDaniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com>
Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:13:30 +0000 (13:13 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:52:01 +0000 (16:52 +1100)
commit7c4dd6e3e0a3b33154372824e6fb1e256caffbf5
tree21f426f57dd16f8799d62aac7fb4e7dc744b42eb
parent2e6502edc854ce737ef49da2fafa59a2fe11b0b9
bug.h: Make BUILD_BUG_ON generate compile-time error

Negative sized arrays wont create a compile-time error in some cases
starting with gcc 4.4 (e.g., inlined functions), but gcc 4.3 introduced
the error function attribute that will.  This patch modifies BUILD_BUG_ON
to behave like BUILD_BUG already does, using the error function attribute
so that you don't have to build the entire kernel to discover that you
have a problem, and then enjoy trying to track it down from a link-time
error.

Also, we are only including asm/bug.h and then expecting that
linux/compiler.h will eventually be included to define __linktime_error
(used in BUILD_BUG_ON).  This patch includes it directly for clarity and
to avoid the possibility of changes in <arch>/*/include/asm/bug.h being
changed or not including linux/compiler.h for some reason.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/bug.h