Re: [PATCH] removes array_size duplicates

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:51:13 +0200 roel <12o3l@tiscali.nl> wrote:
>
> > This patch removes some ARRAY_SIZE macro duplicates. There is also one in
> > arch/um/include/user.h, which isn't fixed here because comments in that file
> > explicitly state a preference for the 'less fancy' version. If that's the
> > case as well for any of the other replacements please comment.
>
> I got a bunch of rejects against various development trees, a
> build error in net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_udp.c and now
>
> net/netfilter/xt_sctp.c: In function 'match_packet':
> net/netfilter/xt_sctp.c:58: error: size of array 'type name' is negative
> net/netfilter/xt_sctp.c:106: error: size of array 'type name' is negative

among other things, one of the creepy issues here is the definition in
include/linux/netfilter/xt_sctp.h of the macro:

...
#define SCTP_CHUNKMAP_COPY(destmap, srcmap)                     \
        do {                                                    \
                int i;                                          \
                for (i = 0; i < ELEMCOUNT(chunkmap); i++)       \
                        destmap[i] = srcmap[i];                 \
        } while (0)
...

  i'm not a big fan of macros that refer to objects that aren't
parameters to the macro, especially when all the rest of them *do*.

rday

p.s.  ELEMCOUNT is simply an alternative to ARRAY_SIZE, which could
certainly be rewritten that way.

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