On Sep 29, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Andreas Kling wrote:
> Dear WebKittens,
>
> I'd like to add some compile-time assertions for the sizes of various
> objects. The motivation comes a patch fixing bloat in InlineBox[1].
>
> There are two major problems with this:
>
> 1. The sizes will differ on 32- and 64-bit platforms.
> 2. The sizes will differ based on compiler flags.
>
> One idea is to add a file that would only be built on (for example) 64-bit
> Mac and then at least that bot would break if an object changes size. That's
> obviously not ideal though.
>
> Any suggestions? :)
You could group the bits together into a struct:
struct {
m_foo: 1;
m_bar: 1;
...
} m_bits;
COMPILE_ASSERT(sizeof(m_bits) <= sizeof(uint32_t), Too_many_bits);
This wouldn't' be sensitive to architecture.
Simon
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