linux-kernel - Re: kernel.h: add ARRAY_AND_SIZE() macro to complement ARRAY

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Date:	Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:28:46 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@...il.com>
CC:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: kernel.h: add ARRAY_AND_SIZE() macro to complement ARRAY_SIZE().

Eric Miao wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> wrote:
>> well, it seems it's not that good to use ARRAY_AND_SIZE at all.
>> Yes it's short but quite frankly - hiding number of args is not
>> that good.
...
> I have to admit
> that a macro expanding to something like an argument list instead
> of a single variable or something  is not a good idea. But, we are
> using C,
...

Exactly, we generally program in C --- not in cpp.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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