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Re: EARRAYSIZE


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: EARRAYSIZE
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 10:41:37 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux)

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> I suggested ALEN because we have AREF and ASIZE.  Maybe AELTS or
>> ALENGTH would be better.
>
> 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.

I see it in the Git codebase.  I don't have the Linux source available
at the moment, but since it is involved with the same kind of crowd,
I consider it likely that they use it as well.

Even in Emacs, we have OBARRAY_SIZE defined as a member count rather
than a byte count (there is no other "ARRAY_SIZE" string in Emacs so
far).

Can't be that confusing to people.

-- 
David Kastrup




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