Re: Using static_assert in Emacs?

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> I'm looking at something like this, where the sizes are known at
>> compile
>> time:
>> 
>>     #define FOO "some text"
>>     static_assert (sizeof buf >= sizeof FOO);
>>     memcpy (buf, FOO, sizeof FOO);
>
> If we have such code (do we?), and if there's a danger that someone
> makes FOO longer but forgets to change buf, such an assertion could be
> useful.  IME, such code is rare, though.

And our convention is to use Gnulib's verify rather than static_assert.