remove server silliniess

[Patrik Stridvall]

> On Thursday 17 April 2003 02:13 am, Fabian Cenedese wrote:
> > >> remove run-time checks of compile-time constants.
> > >
> > >I dearly wish that there were a way of doing compile-time 
> assertion, but
> > > there isn't, so it has to be done by a runtime assertion.
> >
> > Well, there seem to be some reasonable tricks for that:
> > http://www.jaggersoft.com/pubs/CVu11_3.html
> > http://www.panelsoft.com/murphyslaw/apr01.htm
> >
> > This is for C++ but maybe also adaptable for C:
> > http://www.boost.org/libs/static_assert/static_assert.htm
> >
> > bye  Fabi
> 
> ah, the hidden powers of the preprocessor -- how it drives us 
> to obsfucation 
> with it's robotic stupidity...  I wonder, is cpp a turing 
> machine?  

I don't think so.

> Makes me 
> want to implement vim as a sed script ;)

:-)
 
> nonetheless, considering one must sometimes make do with what 
> one has, that 
> array-of-zero trick is super-clever... perhaps I'll actually make a 
> constructive patch out of this debacle yet..

Note that Wine already have a macro for this that is not a Wine
specific invention but is rather a feature of the Win32 API.