Author: jmg Date: Sun Aug 2 00:22:14 2015 New Revision: 286170 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/286170
Log: mark this function as deprecated, and put the warning first, since I doubt most people will read to the end... Note the use of sys/cdefs.h for pre-C11 compilers... I didn't included a note about being compatibile w/ userland since a C11 feature should be obviously usable in userland... Suggested by: imp Modified: head/share/man/man9/CTASSERT.9 Modified: head/share/man/man9/CTASSERT.9 ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man9/CTASSERT.9 Sun Aug 2 00:18:48 2015 (r286169) +++ head/share/man/man9/CTASSERT.9 Sun Aug 2 00:22:14 2015 (r286170) @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd July 30, 2015 +.Dd August 1, 2015 .Dt CTASSERT 9 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -39,6 +39,15 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn CTASSERT +macro is deprecated and the C11 standard +.Fn _Static_assert +should be used instead. +The header +.Fa sys/cdefs.h +should be included to provide compatibility for pre-C11 compilers. +.Pp +The +.Fn CTASSERT macro evaluates .Fa expression at compile time and causes a compiler error if it is false. @@ -48,10 +57,6 @@ The macro is useful for asserting the size or alignment of important data structures and variables during compilation, which would otherwise cause the code to fail at run time. -.Pp -The -.Fn CTASSERT -macro is not usable in userland. .Sh EXAMPLES Assert that the size of the .Vt uuid _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
