On Feb 24, 10:22am, thorpej@shagadelic.org (Jason Thorpe) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/compat/linux/common

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| On Feb 24, 2005, at 8:58 AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
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| > Maybe "length" instead of "count" i.e. __arraylength()
| > And it probably belongs in stddef.h where offsetof() is defined.
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| But it's counting the number of elements in the array.

I was thinking more in terms of the:

double [] array; array.length in java

| Why stddef.h?  It's not a standards-defined macro.  Or, should we also 
| put __min() and __max() in stddef.h?  (That certainly would not bother 
| me one bit.)

Well, it might become standard and since it has __ in front of it it
does not pollute the namespace now.

christos