This patch is basically the rewording of the static assert statement's output(error) on screen after failing. Failing a _Static_assert in C should not report that static_assert failed. It’d probably be better to reword the diagnostic to be more like GCC and say “static assertion” failed in both C and C++.
consider a c file having code
_Static_assert(0, "oh no!");
In clang the output is like:
<source>:1:1: error: static_assert failed: oh no! _Static_assert(0, "oh no!"); ^ ~ 1 error generated. Compiler returned: 1
Thus here the "static_assert" is not much good, it will be better to reword it to the "static assertion failed" to more generic. as the gcc prints as:
<source>:1:1: error: static assertion failed: "oh no!" 1 | _Static_assert(0, "oh no!"); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Compiler returned: 1
The above can also be seen here. This patch is about rewording the static_assert to static assertion.
This is a case where the original text was slightly better -- this diagnostic is only issued for C++ code (modules don't exist in C), so using static_assert was fine.