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// Copyright 2008 Google Inc.
// Authors: Zhanyong Wan, Lincoln Smith
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.
#ifndef OPEN_VCDIFF_COMPILE_ASSERT_H_
#define OPEN_VCDIFF_COMPILE_ASSERT_H_
#include <config.h>
// The COMPILE_ASSERT macro can be used to verify that a compile-time
// expression is true. For example, you could use it to verify the
// size of a static array:
//
// COMPILE_ASSERT(ARRAYSIZE(content_type_names) == CONTENT_NUM_TYPES,
// content_type_names_incorrect_size);
//
// or to make sure a struct is smaller than a certain size:
//
// COMPILE_ASSERT(sizeof(foo) < 128, foo_too_large);
//
// For the second argument to COMPILE_ASSERT, the programmer should supply
// a variable name that meets C++ naming rules, but that provides
// a description of the compile-time rule that has been violated.
// (In the example above, the name used is "foo_too_large".)
// If the expression is false, most compilers will issue a warning/error
// containing the name of the variable.
// This refinement (adding a descriptive variable name argument)
// is what differentiates COMPILE_ASSERT from Boost static asserts.
template <bool>
struct CompileAssert {
};
#define COMPILE_ASSERT(expr, msg) \
typedef CompileAssert<static_cast<bool>(expr)> \
msg[static_cast<bool>(expr) ? 1 : -1]
// Implementation details of COMPILE_ASSERT:
//
// - COMPILE_ASSERT works by defining an array type that has -1
// elements (and thus is invalid) when the expression is false.
//
// - The simpler definition
//
// #define COMPILE_ASSERT(expr, msg) typedef char msg[(expr) ? 1 : -1]
//
// does not work, as gcc supports variable-length arrays whose sizes
// are determined at run-time (this is gcc's extension and not part
// of the C++ standard). As a result, gcc fails to reject the
// following code with the simple definition:
//
// int foo;
// COMPILE_ASSERT(foo, msg); // not supposed to compile as foo is
// // not a compile-time constant.
//
// - By using the type CompileAssert<(static_cast<bool>(expr))>, we ensure that
// expr is a compile-time constant. (Template arguments must be
// determined at compile-time.)
//
// - The array size is (static_cast<bool>(expr) ? 1 : -1), instead of simply
//
// ((expr) ? 1 : -1).
//
// This is to avoid running into a bug in MS VC 7.1, which
// causes ((0.0) ? 1 : -1) to incorrectly evaluate to 1.
#endif // OPEN_VCDIFF_COMPILE_ASSERT_H_