From: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
To: Anshu Kumari <anskuma@redhat.com>,
passt-dev@passt.top, sbrivio@redhat.com
Cc: david@gibson.dropbear.id.au, jmaloy@redhat.com,
Jeskynar <jeskynar@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip: Wrap CASE macro body in braces for pre-C23 compatibility
Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 09:06:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87c720d8-153f-4230-af68-e0b26041791b@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260518135806.429955-1-anskuma@redhat.com>
On 5/18/26 15:58, Anshu Kumari wrote:
> From: Jeskynar <jeskynar@gmail.com>
>
> Compiling on RHEL8 (gcc-8.5) gives an error in ip.c.
> ip.c:88:3: error: a label can only be part of a statement and
> a declaration is not a statement due to the use of static_assert.
>
> The fix is to surround it with {}.
>
> Link: https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=201
> Signed-off-by: Anshu Kumari <anskuma@redhat.com>
Fixes: 93c3e351f235 ("ip: Define a bound for the string returned by ipproto_name()")
Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
> ---
> ip.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/ip.c b/ip.c
> index f2506bb..7b674e0 100644
> --- a/ip.c
> +++ b/ip.c
> @@ -35,9 +35,9 @@ const char *ipproto_name(uint8_t proto)
> {
> switch (proto) {
> #define CASE(s) \
> - static_assert(sizeof(s) <= IPPROTO_STRLEN, \
> - "Increase IPPROTO_STRLEN to contain " #s); \
> - return s;
> + {static_assert(sizeof(s) <= IPPROTO_STRLEN, \
> + "Increase IPPROTO_STRLEN to contain " #s); \
> + return s;}
> case IPPROTO_ICMP:
> CASE("ICMP");
> case IPPROTO_TCP:
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