From ecc4bdf11a2144f37e20631c17f3d58132499398 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steffen Gaisser <gaisser@irs.uni-stuttgart.de>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:50:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added a compile time check for MAX_SIZE

Compiler may warn if MAX_SIZE value overflows by itself but this checks
gives a more verbose warning
---
 container/FixedArrayList.h | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/container/FixedArrayList.h b/container/FixedArrayList.h
index 42b59177..505097c9 100644
--- a/container/FixedArrayList.h
+++ b/container/FixedArrayList.h
@@ -2,11 +2,13 @@
 #define FIXEDARRAYLIST_H_
 
 #include "ArrayList.h"
+#include <cmath>
 /**
  * \ingroup container
  */
-template<typename T, uint32_t MAX_SIZE, typename count_t = uint8_t>
+template<typename T, size_t MAX_SIZE, typename count_t = uint8_t>
 class FixedArrayList: public ArrayList<T, count_t> {
+	static_assert(MAX_SIZE <= (pow(2,sizeof(count_t)*8)-1), "count_t is not large enough to hold MAX_SIZE");
 private:
 	T data[MAX_SIZE];
 public: