Give meaningful fail message for wrong primitive

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/primitive_detail.h b/include/primitive_detail.h
index c7e2a05206..dea7ff225f 100644
--- a/include/primitive_detail.h
+++ b/include/primitive_detail.h
@@ -29,7 +29,10 @@ namespace nbt
 namespace detail
 {
     ///Meta-struct that holds the tag_type value for a specific primitive type
-    template<class T> struct get_primitive_type;
+    template<class T> struct get_primitive_type
+    {
+        static_assert(sizeof(T) != sizeof(T), "Can only use primitive types used by NBT as parameter for tag_primitive");
+    };
 
     template<> struct get_primitive_type<int8_t>  : public std::integral_constant<tag_type, tag_type::Byte> {};
     template<> struct get_primitive_type<int16_t> : public std::integral_constant<tag_type, tag_type::Short> {};