Have I ever mentioned how much I hate the ISO-C people and the

****heads in the gcc&llvm projects who cannot cooperate on
usability features ?

Fixes #2449

configure.ac

@@ -368,27 +368,6 @@ AC_CHECK_DECL([SO_ACCEPTFILTER],
     ]
 )
 
-# Check for _Static_assert()
-# We dont' want to go all C11 on this, and we have vas.h instead
-# of assert.h, so check the brutal way
-
-save_LIBS="${LIBS}"
-LIBS=""
-AC_CACHE_CHECK([for _Static_assert],
-  [ac_cv_static_assert],
-  [AC_RUN_IFELSE(
-    [AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[
-_Static_assert(1 == sizeof(char), "didn't work");
-    ]],[[
-    ]])],
-    [ac_cv_static_assert=yes],
-    [ac_cv_static_assert=no])
-  ])
-if test "$ac_cv_static_assert" = yes; then
-   AC_DEFINE([STATIC_ASSERT], [1], [Define if _Static_assert is availabel])
-fi
-LIBS="${save_LIBS}"
-
 # Older Solaris versions define SO_{RCV,SND}TIMEO, but do not
 # implement them.
 #

include/vdef.h

@@ -127,8 +127,28 @@
 #define NEEDLESS(s)		s
 #endif
 
-#ifndef STATIC_ASSERT
-#  define _Static_assert(a,b)
+
+/*
+ * Most of this nightmare is stolen from FreeBSD's <cdefs.h>
+ */
+#if defined(_Static_assert)
+    /* Nothing, somebody already did this for us */
+#elif defined(__has_extension) && __has_extension(c_static_assert)
+    /* Nothing, we should be fine */
+#elif (defined(__cplusplus) && __cplusplus >= 201103L) || \
+       __has_extension(cxx_static_assert)
+#   define _Static_assert(x, y)	static_assert(x, y)
+#elif __GNUC_PREREQ__(4,6) && !defined(__cplusplus)
+    /* Nothing, gcc 4.6 and higher has _Static_assert built-in */
+#else
+#   if defined(__COUNTER__)
+#	define _Static_assert(x, y)	__Static_assert(x, __COUNTER__)
+#   else
+#	define _Static_assert(x, y)	__Static_assert(x, __LINE__)
+#   endif
+#   define __Static_assert(x, y)	___Static_assert(x, y)
+#   define ___Static_assert(x, y) \
+		typedef char __assert_ ## y[(x) ? 1 : -1] __unused
 #endif
 
 #endif /* VDEF_H_INCLUDED */