Re: [PATCH v2] <sys/param.h>: Add nitems() and snitems() macros

From: Jonathan Wakely
Date: Fri Sep 25 2020 - 13:43:01 EST


On 25/09/20 18:30 +0200, Alejandro Colomar via Libstdc++ wrote:
I have a similar number of ARRAY_SIZE() and ARRAY_SSIZE().
I could have '#define snitems(arr) ((ptrdiff_t)nitems(arr))' in my projects,
but is it really necessary?

The barrier for adding something to glibc headers should be a LOT
higher than "I could [do it in my own code], but is it really
necessary?"

Did I convince you? :-)

No.