From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
Cc: fweimer@redhat.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org, libc-coord@lists.openwall.com,
enh@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] <sys/param.h>: Add nitems() and snitems() macros
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 18:42:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200925174252.GO6061@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22c110fe-4c92-e5e6-dc35-dbf00a97cfa2@gmail.com>
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
higher than "I could [do it in my own code], but is it really
necessary?"
>Did I convince you? :-)
No.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-25 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <946e9377-0558-3adf-3eb9-38c507afe2d0@gmail.com>
[not found] ` <874knr8qyl.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com>
2020-09-21 10:11 ` Expose 'array_length()' macro in <sys/cdefs.h> or <sys/param.h> Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-21 10:33 ` Florian Weimer
2020-09-21 12:47 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-21 15:47 ` [libc-coord] " enh
2020-09-22 16:25 ` Rich Felker
2020-09-22 16:44 ` Jonathan Wakely
2020-09-22 16:53 ` Ville Voutilainen
2020-09-21 14:01 ` Jonathan Wakely
2020-09-21 21:52 ` Expose 'array_length()' macro in <sys/param.h> Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-21 22:04 ` Jonathan Wakely
2020-09-21 22:13 ` Ville Voutilainen
2020-09-22 9:10 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-22 9:40 ` Jonathan Wakely
2020-09-22 10:01 ` Florian Weimer
2020-09-22 10:35 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-22 11:40 ` Florian Weimer
2020-09-22 14:58 ` [RFC] <sys/param.h>: Add nitems() and snitems() macros Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-25 13:20 ` [PATCH v2] " Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-25 14:10 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-25 14:48 ` Jonathan Wakely
2020-09-25 16:30 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-25 17:39 ` Jonathan Wakely
2020-09-25 17:42 ` Jonathan Wakely [this message]
2020-09-25 17:46 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-25 19:37 ` [PATCH v3] <sys/param.h>: Add nitems() Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-22 9:16 ` [libc-coord] Re: Expose 'array_length()' macro in <sys/param.h> Florian Weimer
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.21.2009301557590.5720@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
2020-09-30 20:39 ` Expose 'array_length()' macro in <sys/cdefs.h> or <sys/param.h> Alejandro Colomar
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