On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 07:55:27PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> It started when I tried to write
>
> WARN_ON(m->seq_ops_allocated);
>
> in today's "[PATCH] single_open/seq_release leak diagnostics?.
> Suprisingly compiler told me piss off with:
>
> CC fs/seq_file.o
> fs/seq_file.c: In function 'seq_release':
> fs/seq_file.c:285: error: 'typeof' applied to a bit-field
>
> Well, duh! Earlier versions of WARN_ON allowed that until commit
> 684f978347deb42d180373ac4c427f82ef963171? which added typeof().
>
> OK, nobody noticed that WARN_ON(bitfield) stopped working. But I
> question the rationale of that commit:
Actually, the real problem is different - WTF do we need that typeof
anyway?
int ret_warn_on = !!(condition);
[same as now]
will work just fine...
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