Re: [Xen-devel] [MINIOS PATCH] lib.h: remove BUILD_BUG_ON

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 04:02:11PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Wei Liu, on Fri 12 Aug 2016 15:01:07 +0100, wrote:
> > BUILD_BUG_ON should not appear in a public-facing header, otherwise it
> > risks clashing with macro with the same name in other code bases. I
> > encountered such issue when trying to add BUILD_BUG_ON to a private
> > header in Xen's gnttab library.
> > 
> > Ideally BUILD_BUG_ON should be moved to a private header, but there is
> > actually no user of it in mini-os tree, just remove it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 

Actually some stuff in stubdom depends on mini-os leaking BUILD_BUG_ON,
while some actively work around the leaking of some other macros.

I will hold off putting in this patch for now.

Wei.

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