Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] virtio-gpu/2d: add hardware spec include file

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:04:11AM -0700, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 14 September 2014 06:46, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> > BUILD_BUG_ON in linux, QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON in QEMU.
> > You have to stick it in a C file though, so it
> > won't be visible in this patch.
> 
> Why do you think that? We have several header files which
> use QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON and I don't see any reason why
> it would have to be invoked from a .c file.
> 
> -- PMM

Because Gerd wants to share this with linux uapi, and
you can't use BUILD_BUG_ON in uapi headers on linux.