On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 04:56:32PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> __builtin_types_compatible_p() has been around since gcc 2.95, and we
> don't use it anywhere.  This patch quietly fixes that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> diff -r f0ff8138f993 include/linux/kernel.h
> --- a/include/linux/kernel.h  Fri Mar 09 16:40:25 2007 +1100
> +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h  Fri Mar 09 16:44:04 2007 +1100
> @@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ extern const char linux_proc_banner[];
>  #define ALIGN(x,a)           __ALIGN_MASK(x,(typeof(x))(a)-1)
>  #define __ALIGN_MASK(x,mask) (((x)+(mask))&~(mask))
>  
> -#define ARRAY_SIZE(x) (sizeof(x) / sizeof((x)[0]))
> +#define ARRAY_SIZE(arr) (sizeof(arr) / sizeof((arr)[0])                      
>       \
> +     + sizeof(typeof(int[1 - 2*!!__builtin_types_compatible_p(typeof(arr), \
> +              typeof(&arr[0]))]))*0)

This needs a comment explaning why we're doing this, and maybe a little
explanation of the combination of gcc magic and C trickery used to implement
it to the brave non-uberhacker people trying to understand linux headers.

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