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Date:      Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:01:53 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_ioctl.c
Message-ID:  <20050324210153.GA6308@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200503241555.59177.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 03:55:59PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 24 March 2005 03:19 pm, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:09:43PM +0100, Stefan Farfeleder wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:02:10PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > > > Prior to C99, I think #error wasn't specified.  C99 does specify it.
> > >
> > > C89/90 had #error too.
> >
> > I stand corrected.  Now that I think about it, all but the perverse
> > preprocessors would implement #error just by blowing up on an unknown
> > directive so even that isn't an issue.  In any case, I've made the
> > change and the new code is at least shorter.  It's really only there for
> > people mucking with kernel internals who should be able to figure out
> > what it means.
>=20
> We could always just change CTASSERT() to use #error if that is better.

#error would be better if we could change the CTASSERT prototype to
output a useful error message.  I suppose we could add a new macro that
took an argument and implement CTASSERT in terms of it.

-- Brooks

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