From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: EARRAYSIZE Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 11:14:31 +0300 Message-ID: <838urla4uw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83ob0i9pn9.fsf@gnu.org> <533DB7D9.5070407@dancol.org> <878urmfa3j.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83ioqpa679.fsf@gnu.org> <533E6795.40405@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396599280 30215 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2014 08:14:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 08:14:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 04 10:14:33 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 1WVzGg-0004vC-G1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 10:14:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48383 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WVzGg-0004nD-29 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 04:14:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56858) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WVzGY-0004mt-2s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 04:14:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WVzGS-00045x-Tz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 04:14:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:63315) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WVzGS-00045s-LN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 04:14:16 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N3H00500YSVEZ00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 11:14:15 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N3H005RGYVRAO20@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 11:14:15 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <533E6795.40405@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:171305 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 01:04:37 -0700 > From: Paul Eggert > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > 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. The SIZE part was what I originally objected: "size" in C is mostly measured in bytes, which this one isn't. ARRAY_SIZE will be confusing since we already have ASIZE.