Hi Alejandro,
>On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 01:40:23AM GMT, mirabilos wrote:
>> Not too sure what the root context of this thread is, but in BSD land
>
>The root context is that
>
>- _Lengthof was added to C2y in the Minnesota meeting. It was proposed
where/how would this be used for? Also, do you have the nXXXX.pdf link
handy? I don’t actively follow C other than what thephd posts.
>- I'm sending a patch to GCC proposing __countof__, since overloading
> length for both string length and array number of elements is (IMO)
> going to promote off-by-one bugs in string-handling code (and I've
Definitely! The string length is one less than the amount of array
elements it has (works for char and wide strings).
>- _Nelementsof
>- _Nelemsof
If you want to shorten elements, elts is probably seen more
often than elems, at least in my experience. But this is very
low-grade bikeshedding, so just me pointing it out but putting
not much weight behind it.
bye,
//mirabilos
PS: Got any contacts in the OpenBSD and NetBSD worlds that can
add input? They invest a lot into good C code as well, in
the OpenBSD case rather heavily (if opinionated).
--
<igli> exceptions: a truly awful implementation of quite a nice idea.
<igli> just about the worst way you could do something like that, afaic.
<igli> it's like anti-design. <mirabilos> that too… may I quote you on that?
<igli> sure, tho i doubt anyone will listen ;)
