Re: SIZEOF macro

[Eric Blake]

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According to Bruno Haible on 12/25/2009 3:58 AM:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> I use LENGTHOF in my personal code.
> 
> It's certainly handy and easy to remember. But in C we often make the
> distinction between "length" (= number of elements that matter) and
> "size" (= number of elements for which room is allocated).
> The array L"abc" has length 3, as determined by wcslen, but has storage
> allocated for 4 elements.

Is there some other short but acceptable name?  Maybe COUNTOF or
ARRAY_COUNT?  END_INDEX or LAST_INDEX?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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