On 08/09/2013 03:26 PM, Marcin Sobieszczanski wrote:
Linux kernel does it this way:
/* Force a compilation error if condition is true, but also produce a
result (of value 0 and type size_t), so the expression can be used
e.g. in a structure initializer (or where-ever else comma expressions
aren't permitted). */
#define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) (sizeof(char[1 - 2 * !!(e)]) - 1)
/* &a[0] degrades to a pointer: a different type from an array */
#define __must_be_array(a) \
BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(__builtin_types_compatible_p(typeof(a), typeof(&a[0])))
#define ARRAY_SIZE(arr) (sizeof(arr) / sizeof((arr)[0]) + __must_be_array(arr))
Thanks, this is what I was looking for!
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team
