On 2020-09-25 19:39, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> Yes, I'm aware of all the rationale. I already said that it makes
> sense in C++ where you have generic code. I am not convinced that it's
> necessary to add to when all it does is a cast from
> size_t to ptrdiff_t.
>
While I would prefer a signed
On 25/09/20 18:30 +0200, Alejandro Colomar via Libstdc++ wrote:
I have a similar number of ARRAY_SIZE() and ARRAY_SSIZE().
I could have '#define snitems(arr) ((ptrdiff_t)nitems(arr))' in my projects,
but is it really necessary?
The barrier for adding something to glibc headers should be a LOT
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On 25/09/20 18:30 +0200, Alejandro Colomar via Libstdc++ wrote:
Hello Jonathan,
On 2020-09-25 16:48, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
Do you really need to provide snitems?
Users can use (ptrdiff_t)nitems if needed, can't they?
They can, but that adds casts in the code,
which makes longer lines that a
Hello Jonathan,
On 2020-09-25 16:48, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> Do you really need to provide snitems?
>
> Users can use (ptrdiff_t)nitems if needed, can't they?
They can, but that adds casts in the code,
which makes longer lines that are somewhat harder to read.
To avoid that, users may sometimes
On 25/09/20 16:10 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
On 2020-09-25 15:20, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
'nitems()' calculates the length of an array in number of items.
It is safe: if a pointer is passed to the macro (or function, in C++),
the compilation is broken due to:
- In >= C11: _Static_asser
On 2020-09-25 15:20, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> 'nitems()' calculates the length of an array in number of items.
> It is safe: if a pointer is passed to the macro (or function, in C++),
> the compilation is broken due to:
> - In >= C11: _Static_assert()
> - In C89, C99: Negative anonymous b
'nitems()' calculates the length of an array in number of items.
It is safe: if a pointer is passed to the macro (or function, in C++),
the compilation is broken due to:
- In >= C11: _Static_assert()
- In C89, C99: Negative anonymous bitfield
- In C++: The template requires an array
'snitems()'
