Re: textutils -> od 2.0.14 bug - solved

From: "Jim Meyering" <[email protected]>

> +/* Ensure that for each member of `enum size_spec' there is an
> +   initializer in the width_bytes array.  */
> +struct assert_width_bytes_matches_size_spec_decl
> +{
> +  int t1[sizeof width_bytes / sizeof width_bytes[0] - N_SIZE_SPECS];
> +  int t2[N_SIZE_SPECS - sizeof width_bytes / sizeof width_bytes[0]];
> +};
> +

I like the idea of verifying that the code is consistent.  But the above
structure assumes that zero-length arrays are valid, and they are not in
standard C (at least not in C90, I suppose C99 could have added that?).

As an alternative, you could have an N_WIDTH_BYTES entry at the end of the
width_bytes array, and then have something like:

#if N_SIZE_SPECS != N_WIDTH_BYTES
#error Array size mismatch
#endif

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Eric Backus
R&D Design Engineer
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
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