Compile-time asserts in C

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Asserts are good. Compile-time asserts are even better. Here’s how to define and use them in C.

#ifndef CASSERT
#define CASSERT( exp, name ) typedef int dummy##name [ (exp ) ? 1 : -1 ];
#endif
CASSERT( sizeof(int16_t) == 2, int16_t_is_two_bytes )

Written on Jan 13 2006. Topics: c, programming.

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