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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: sizeof(x) / sizeof(x[0])
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 15:55:19 -0800
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"Fernando D. Bozzo" <fdbozzo@gmail.com> writes:
> El sábado, 14 de enero de 2017, 13:43:16 (UTC+1), Alla _  escribió:
> <snip> 
>> Here is the macro (I have not posted it assuming people know it, sorry):
>> #define ARRAY_SIZE(x) ( sizeof(x) / sizeof(x[0]) )
>
> Oh, surely all people here knows this, but I'm new :)

That's certainly a reasonable definition for that macro, but since
there's no such macro in the standard it is important to be explicit.
Minor variations in how it's defined could be significant.

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