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Subject: Re: [9fans] same functions everywhere
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 12:19:18 -0400
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> >You're all nuts.  But at least use nelem(a) in
> >place of sizeof(a)/sizeof(int).
>
> shouldn't that be called nwords/nints(a) or else shouldn't the
> expression be (sizeof(a)/sizeof(*(a)))?

No, it should be called nelem because it's defined (in libc.h):

#define	nelem(x)	(sizeof(x)/sizeof((x)[0]))

You've pointed out a bug in what they were using,
which was part of why I suggested nelem.