I need to write a C macro that checks to ensure all parameters passed to it are unsigned
and of the same integer type. Ex: all input params are uint8_t
, or all uint16_t
, or all uint32_t
, or all uint64_t
.
Here is how this type of checking can be done in C++: Use static_assert to check types passed to macro
Does something similar exist in C, even if only by way of a gcc extension?
Note that static asserts are available in gcc via _Static_assert
. (See my answer here: Static assert in C).
This fails to work:
int a = 1;
int b = 2;
_Static_assert(__typeof__ a == __typeof__ b, "types don't match");
Error:
main.c: In function ‘main’:
main.c:23:20: error: expected expression before ‘__typeof__’
_Static_assert(__typeof__ a == __typeof__ b, "types don't match");