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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON: use __COUNTER__


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON: use __COUNTER__
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 09:16:40 -0600
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On 01/31/2017 09:12 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 31 January 2017 at 15:03, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 01/31/2017 08:43 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> Some headers use QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON. This causes a problem
>>> if the C file including that header happens to have
>>> QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON at the same line number.
>>>
>>> Fix using a widely available extension: __COUNTER__.
>>
>> gcc 4.3 and later; clang documents it but doesn't say when it was added.
>>
>>> If unavailable, provide a stub.
>>
>> What fails in our build farm if we don't provide the stub? Can we just
>> require that our compiler is new enough to have __COUNTER__, or will
>> that break some of our existing targets?
> 
> I think the problem is not so much our build farm (which is
> I think all recent enough to postdate introduction of
> __COUNTER__) but the probability of there being users
> out there who are still using older compilers to build
> QEMU releases. We don't need to enforce compile time
> asserts on those old compilers but given that it's
> trivial to avoid actually breaking the build for them,
> why not provide the do-nothing fallback?

The do-nothing fallback works for me; I'm just debating whether it is
dead code or whether we really would have a user building with a
compiler that old.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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