From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: EARRAYSIZE Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 01:04:37 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <533E6795.40405@cs.ucla.edu> References: <83ob0i9pn9.fsf@gnu.org> <533DB7D9.5070407@dancol.org> <878urmfa3j.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83ioqpa679.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396598721 23737 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2014 08:05:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 08:05:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 04 10:05:14 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WVz7i-0006Ge-F4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 10:05:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48332 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WVz7i-0007Xb-05 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 04:05:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54421) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WVz7X-0007Lv-Gf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 04:05:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WVz7Q-0000rI-1y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 04:05:03 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:55214) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WVz7H-0000p3-Ma; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 04:04:47 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9B8D39E8018; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 01:04:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wJo8cZsZ22IY; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 01:04:38 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-108-0-233-62.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.0.233.62]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 28FF539E8015; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 01:04:38 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: <83ioqpa679.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171301 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I suggested ALEN because we have AREF and ASIZE. Maybe AELTS or > ALENGTH would be better. The most common name for this macro in other projects is probably ARRAY_SIZE. That's what's in libiberty, for example. There are other names (ARRAY_CARDINALITY, SIZEOF) but ARRAY_SIZE seems to be more popular.