[webkit-dev] Compile-time assertions for object sizes

[Antti Koivisto]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Andreas Kling <kling at webkit.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

I like that approach as it allows you to explicitly assert against byte
counts. Other approaches are more abstract and so easier to dismiss when
checking in a bloaty patch. It also documents the byte sizes and makes
progressions explicit too.


   antti
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