Re: CVS commit: src/crypto/external/bsd/netpgp/dist

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:47:37PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 03:52:15PM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> > You're right, if you believe that the failure of a runtime check for
> > the length of time_t being greater than or equal to 4 bytes is
> > sufficient to abort an application.
> 
> ...which can and should be a compile-time assertion.

Absolutely - we can put it in <sys/cdefs.h>, right next to the check
for the value of pi changing, and the check for int32_t being able to
address 32 bits.

Having this kind of thing as compile-time checks would take a huge
weight off my mind.

Alistair

PS.  It has suddenly struck me that your suggestion might have been
serious. Oh well...