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Re: quest for cross-platform static assert

Message-ID <281TH4JtBcrNFAC1@phaedsys.demon.co.uk> (permalink)
From Chris H <chris@phaedsys.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: quest for cross-platform static assert
References <4dada675$0$7171$426a74cc@news.free.fr>
Date 2011-04-19 18:03 +0100

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In message <4dada675$0$7171$426a74cc@news.free.fr>, Francois Grieu
<fgrieu@gmail.com> writes
>Under C89/90/99, there is no static assert allowing to check a
>constant expression at compile time.

Snip

>Can this be improved upon, towards the grail of working almost everywhere
>without special-casing for this or that environment?

It is not a holy grail. Most don't care about portability. Most of those
who do only care for a very small sub set of environments.

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quest for cross-platform static assert Francois Grieu <fgrieu@gmail.com> - 2011-04-19 17:13 +0200
  Re: quest for cross-platform static assert Chris H <chris@phaedsys.org> - 2011-04-19 18:03 +0100
    Re: quest for cross-platform static assert Francois Grieu <fgrieu@gmail.com> - 2011-04-19 19:35 +0200
      Re: quest for cross-platform static assert Chris H <chris@phaedsys.org> - 2011-04-21 10:01 +0100
        Re: quest for cross-platform static assert Francois Grieu <fgrieu@gmail.com> - 2011-04-21 19:25 +0200
          Re: quest for cross-platform static assert Chris H <chris@phaedsys.org> - 2011-04-22 09:03 +0100
            Re: quest for cross-platform static assert Francois Grieu <fgrieu@gmail.com> - 2011-04-22 13:45 +0200
        Re: quest for cross-platform static assert Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-04-21 11:42 -0700
          Re: quest for cross-platform static assert Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-04-23 00:52 +0000
  Re: quest for cross-platform static assert "christian.bau" <christian.bau@cbau.wanadoo.co.uk> - 2011-04-19 10:13 -0700
    Re: quest for cross-platform static assert Francois Grieu <fgrieu@gmail.com> - 2011-04-19 19:32 +0200
  Re: quest for cross-platform static assert ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2011-04-20 06:42 -0700
  Re: quest for cross-platform static assert Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2011-04-20 11:04 -0700
    Re: quest for cross-platform static assert Francois Grieu <fgrieu@gmail.com> - 2011-04-21 10:34 +0200
      Re: quest for cross-platform static assert Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-04-21 08:13 -0400
        Re: quest for cross-platform static assert Francois Grieu <fgrieu@gmail.com> - 2011-04-21 19:10 +0200
        Re: quest for cross-platform static assert William Ahern <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2011-04-21 10:28 -0700
        Re: quest for cross-platform static assert Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-04-21 18:49 +0100
          Re: quest for cross-platform static assert Francois Grieu <fgrieu@gmail.com> - 2011-04-22 14:10 +0200
      Re: quest for cross-platform static assert  [a new, better? one] Francois Grieu <fgrieu@gmail.com> - 2011-04-22 16:04 +0200
      Re: quest for cross-platform static assert Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2011-04-23 13:37 -0700

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