bug: introduce BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID() macro
Sometimes we want to check some expressions correctness at compile time. "(void)(e);" or "if (e);" can be dangerous if the expression has side-effects, and gcc sometimes generates a lot of code, even if the expression has no effect. This patch introduces macro BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID() for such checks, it forces a compilation error if expression is invalid without any extra code. [Cast to "long" required because sizeof does not work for bit-fields.] Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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