Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xmon/ppc-opc: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Mon Oct 08 2018 - 23:44:05 EST


Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, 2018-10-04 at 19:10 +0200, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> Use ARRAY_SIZE instead of dividing sizeof array with sizeof an element.
> []
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/xmon/ppc-opc.c b/arch/powerpc/xmon/ppc-opc.c
> []
>> @@ -966,8 +966,7 @@ const struct powerpc_operand powerpc_operands[] =
>> { 0xff, 11, NULL, NULL, PPC_OPERAND_SIGNOPT },
>> };
>>
>> -const unsigned int num_powerpc_operands = (sizeof (powerpc_operands)
>> - / sizeof (powerpc_operands[0]));
>> +const unsigned int num_powerpc_operands = ARRAY_SIZE(powerpc_operands);
>
> It seems this is unused and could be deleted.

The code in this file is copied from binutils.

We don't want to needlessly diverge it.

I've said this before:

https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/874lfxjnzl.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Is there some way we can blacklist this file from checkpatch, Coccinelle
etc?

cheers