diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 2c06dd0..7da2b22 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+0.30:
+  add compiletimeassert.h
+
 0.29:
   save 8 bytes in taia.h for 64-bit systems
   add buffer_tosa (buffer writing to auto-growing stralloc)
diff --git a/compiletimeassert.h b/compiletimeassert.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..977356d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compiletimeassert.h
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+
+#define __X(x, y) x ## y
+#define __Y(x, y) __X(x, y)
+#define compiletimeassert(cond) struct __Y(foo,__LINE__) { char __temp[1 - (!(cond))*2]; };