diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 88ed2ba15..bf32a2904 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -790,6 +790,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "primal 0.2.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "rustc-hex 1.0.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "serde_json 1.0.39 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "static_assertions 0.3.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "tempdir 0.3.7 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
@@ -3907,6 +3908,11 @@ name = "static_assertions"
 version = "0.2.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "static_assertions"
+version = "0.3.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "stats"
 version = "0.1.0"
@@ -5067,6 +5073,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "checksum spin 0.5.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "44363f6f51401c34e7be73db0db371c04705d35efbe9f7d6082e03a921a32c55"
 "checksum stable_deref_trait 1.1.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "dba1a27d3efae4351c8051072d619e3ade2820635c3958d826bfea39d59b54c8"
 "checksum static_assertions 0.2.5 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "c19be23126415861cb3a23e501d34a708f7f9b2183c5252d690941c2e69199d5"
+"checksum static_assertions 0.3.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "b4f8de36da215253eb5f24020bfaa0646613b48bf7ebe36cdfa37c3b3b33b241"
 "checksum stream-cipher 0.3.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "8861bc80f649f5b4c9bd38b696ae9af74499d479dbfb327f0607de6b326a36bc"
 "checksum string 0.1.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "00caf261d6f90f588f8450b8e1230fa0d5be49ee6140fdfbcb55335aff350970"
 "checksum strsim 0.7.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "bb4f380125926a99e52bc279241539c018323fab05ad6368b56f93d9369ff550"
diff --git a/ethash/Cargo.toml b/ethash/Cargo.toml
index c4ba9cafe..7bd234300 100644
--- a/ethash/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ethash/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ log = "0.4"
 memmap = "0.6"
 parking_lot = "0.8"
 primal = "0.2.3"
+static_assertions = "0.3.3"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 criterion = "0.2"
diff --git a/ethash/src/lib.rs b/ethash/src/lib.rs
index 59a620d12..47dd0688d 100644
--- a/ethash/src/lib.rs
+++ b/ethash/src/lib.rs
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ extern crate primal;
 extern crate crunchy;
 #[macro_use]
 extern crate log;
+#[macro_use]
+extern crate static_assertions;
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 extern crate rustc_hex;
diff --git a/ethash/src/shared.rs b/ethash/src/shared.rs
index 2c9a9fa9d..9330b137d 100644
--- a/ethash/src/shared.rs
+++ b/ethash/src/shared.rs
@@ -69,34 +69,7 @@ pub type NodeBytes = [u8; NODE_BYTES];
 pub type NodeWords = [u32; NODE_WORDS];
 pub type NodeDwords = [u64; NODE_DWORDS];
 
-macro_rules! static_assert_size_eq {
-	(@inner $a:ty, $b:ty, $($rest:ty),*) => {
-		fn first() {
-			static_assert_size_eq!($a, $b);
-		}
-
-		fn second() {
-			static_assert_size_eq!($b, $($rest),*);
-		}
-	};
-	(@inner $a:ty, $b:ty) => {
-		unsafe {
-			let val: $b = ::std::mem::uninitialized();
-			let _: $a = ::std::mem::transmute(val);
-		}
-	};
-	($($rest:ty),*) => {
-		static_assert_size_eq!(size_eq: $($rest),*);
-	};
-	($name:ident : $($rest:ty),*) => {
-		#[allow(dead_code)]
-		fn $name() {
-			static_assert_size_eq!(@inner $($rest),*);
-		}
-	};
-}
-
-static_assert_size_eq!(Node, NodeBytes, NodeWords, NodeDwords);
+assert_eq_size!(node; Node, NodeBytes, NodeWords, NodeDwords);
 
 #[repr(C)]
 pub union Node {