RE: Proposal: Add more compile-time asserts to expose inconsistencies.

From: "Smith, Peter" <peters(at)fast(dot)au(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: RE: Proposal: Add more compile-time asserts to expose inconsistencies.
Date: 2019-10-27 11:44:54
Message-ID: 201DD0641B056142AC8C6645EC1B5F62014B961D89@SYD1217
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From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> Sent: Sunday, 27 October 2019 12:03 PM

>>Ideally, the implementation should end up calling _Static_assert()
>>somehow, so that we get the compiler's native error message.

OK. I can work on that.

>>We could do a configure check for whether _Static_assert() works at
>>file scope. I don't know what the support for that is, but it seems to
>>work in gcc and clang

> I think it should work everywhere that has static assert. So we should need a separate configure check.

Er, that's a typo right? I think you meant: "So we *shouldn't* need a separate configure check"

Kind Regards
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Peter Smith
Fujitsu Australia

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