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Re: EARRAYSIZE
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: EARRAYSIZE |
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Fri, 04 Apr 2014 11:14:31 +0300 |
> Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 01:04:37 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
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> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I suggested ALEN because we have AREF and ASIZE. Maybe AELTS or
> > ALENGTH would be better.
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> The most common name for this macro in other projects is probably
> ARRAY_SIZE. That's what's in libiberty, for example. There are other
> names (ARRAY_CARDINALITY, SIZEOF) but ARRAY_SIZE seems to be more popular.
The SIZE part was what I originally objected: "size" in C is mostly
measured in bytes, which this one isn't. ARRAY_SIZE will be confusing
since we already have ASIZE.