On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > there are numerous places throughout the source tree that apparently > > calculate the size of an array using the construct > > "sizeof(fubar)/sizeof(fubar[0])". see for yourself: > > > > $ grep -Er "sizeof\((.*)\) ?/ ?sizeof\(\1\[0\]\)" * > > > > but we already have, from "include/linux/kernel.h": > > > > #define ARRAY_SIZE(x) (sizeof(x) / sizeof((x)[0])) > > Hmmm. quite misleading name :-(. ARRAY_LEN would be better.
i suspect it's *way* too late to make that kind of change, given that "ARRAY_SIZE" is firmly ensconced in countless places in the source tree and that would be a major, disruptive change. even *i* wouldn't try to promote that idea. :-) rday - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
