Eric Blake wrote:
> Is there some other short but acceptable name? Maybe COUNTOF or
> ARRAY_COUNT? END_INDEX or LAST_INDEX?
I don't see a better name than SIZEOF:
- The terms "length", "count", "used" etc. allude to the used portion
of an array, not its allocated size.
- "cardinality" is longer, for no added value.
- The word "end_index" would be reasonable if the only use was in
'for' loops. But when you concatenate two arrays, and you've got to write
XNMALLOC (END_INDEX (a1) + END_INDEX (a2), type)
you realize that it is not capturing the entire semantics.
Bruno
