RE: Proposal: Add more compile-time asserts to exposeinconsistencies.

From: Andres Freund  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