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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2018, Arm Limited. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ */
+
+#ifndef __CASSERT_H__
+#define __CASSERT_H__
+
+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Macro to flag a compile time assertion. It uses the preprocessor to generate
+ * an invalid C construct if 'cond' evaluates to false.
+ * The following  compilation error is triggered if the assertion fails:
+ * "error: size of array 'msg' is negative"
+ ******************************************************************************/
+#define CASSERT(cond, msg)	typedef char msg[(cond) ? 1 : -1]
+
+#endif /* __CASSERT_H__ */