Re: [PATCH] Use gdb_static_assert in charset.c

[Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>]

On 2019-10-07 1:35 p.m., Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches wrote:
> It currently has a "manual" static assert.
> 
> gdb/ChangeLog:
> 
> 2019-10-07  Christian Biesinger  <cbiesinger@google.com>
> 
> 	* charset.c (your_gdb_wchar_t_is_bogus): Replace with a
> 	gdb_static_assert.
> ---
>  gdb/charset.c | 12 +++---------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/charset.c b/gdb/charset.c
> index 9df46c0c74d..73131651a6d 100644
> --- a/gdb/charset.c
> +++ b/gdb/charset.c
> @@ -946,15 +946,9 @@ default_auto_wide_charset (void)
>  #define ENDIAN_SUFFIX "LE"
>  #endif
>  
> -/* The code below serves to generate a compile time error if
> -   gdb_wchar_t type is not of size 2 nor 4, despite the fact that
> -   macro __STDC_ISO_10646__ is defined.
> -   This is better than a gdb_assert call, because GDB cannot handle
> -   strings correctly if this size is different.  */
> -
> -extern char your_gdb_wchar_t_is_bogus[(sizeof (gdb_wchar_t) == 2
> -				       || sizeof (gdb_wchar_t) == 4)
> -				      ? 1 : -1];
> +/* GDB cannot handle strings correctly if this size is different.  */
> +
> +gdb_static_assert (sizeof (gdb_wchar_t) == 2 || sizeof (gdb_wchar_t) == 4);
>  
>  /* intermediate_encoding returns the charset used internally by
>     GDB to convert between target and host encodings. As the test above
> 

Thanks, LGTM.

Simon