Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:40:08 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: lots of code could be simplified by using ARRAY_SIZE() |
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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.
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