Re: kernel.h: add ARRAY_AND_SIZE() macro to complementARRAY_SIZE().

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 02:24:47PM +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
> Move the ARRAY_AND_SIZE() macro from arch/arm/mach-pxa/generic.h
> to a more useful position in include/linux/kernel.h. This macro
> is very useful to registration functions that take an array and
> the number of array elements in it as consecutive arguments.
> 
> The macro also should ensure that mistakes where the wrong array
> is used to the ARRAY_SIZE() macro is passed. It also makes it
> easier to avoid wrapping registration function arguments.

> --- linux-2.6.27-rc6-quilt4.orig/include/linux/kernel.h
> +++ linux-2.6.27-rc6-quilt4/include/linux/kernel.h
> @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ extern const char linux_proc_banner[];
>  #define IS_ALIGNED(x, a)		(((x) & ((typeof(x))(a) - 1)) == 0)
>  
>  #define ARRAY_SIZE(arr) (sizeof(arr) / sizeof((arr)[0]) + __must_be_array(arr))
> +#define ARRAY_AND_SIZE(arr) (arr), ARRAY_SIZE(arr)

Just like ARRAY_SIZE, it is misnamed.

And it isn't obvious to what it expands. Hopefully arm people will
remove it. :-)
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