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Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:
> On 25/07/16 17:06, Richard Bos wrote:
>> Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 25/07/16 12:42, jgh@mdfs.net wrote:
>>
>>> static const char *get_foo(size_t a)
>>> {
>>>     static const char *numbers[] =
>>>     {
>>>       "zero",
>>>       "one",
>>>       "two",
>>>       "three",
>>>       "four"
>>>     };
>>>     size_t maxval = sizeof numbers / sizeof numbers[0] - 1;
>>>
>>>     return numbers[a <= maxval ? a : maxval];
>>> }
>>
>> A good solution,
>
> A slightly better solution (which, of course, I thought of /after/ 
> posting) would have been to make maxval static.

And const?

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