On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 10:45:22AM +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Eric Blake suggested on the mailing list that we can use a dummy
> array declaration to trigger a compile error if the
> PrimaryVolumeDescriptor structure size isn't 2048 bytes.
> ---
> osinfo/osinfo_media.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/osinfo/osinfo_media.c b/osinfo/osinfo_media.c
> index 15d6abe..53d362c 100644
> --- a/osinfo/osinfo_media.c
> +++ b/osinfo/osinfo_media.c
> @@ -46,6 +46,13 @@ struct _PrimaryVolumeDescriptor {
> guint8 ignored3[1602];
> } __attribute__ ((packed));
>
> +/* the PrimaryVolumeDescriptor struct must exactly 2048 bytes long
> + * since we expect the supplementary volume descriptor to be right
> + * after it. The magic declaration below ensures we get a compilatin
> + * error if its size is not correct
> + */
> +char dummy[sizeof(struct _PrimaryVolumeDescriptor) == 2048 ? 1 : -1];
> +
> typedef struct _SupplementaryVolumeDescriptor SupplementaryVolumeDescriptor;
>
> struct _SupplementaryVolumeDescriptor {
ACK
Daniel
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