CarpetLib: Define macro static_assert()

This macro checks the assertion at compile time instead of at run
time.

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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Carpet/CarpetLib/src/defs.hh b/Carpet/CarpetLib/src/defs.hh
index 415a067cc..d486dc0e4 100644
--- a/Carpet/CarpetLib/src/defs.hh
+++ b/Carpet/CarpetLib/src/defs.hh
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ using namespace std;
 
 
   
+// A compile time pseudo assert statement
+#define static_assert(_x) do { typedef int ai[(_x) ? 1 : -1]; } while(0)
+
+
+
 // Number of dimensions
 const int dim = 3;