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...
