[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Request (PR#939)

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Paul Zastoupil wrote:
>> 
>> How about this?
> 
> That looks pretty nice.  Certainly a lot cleaner than those sizeof's
> everywhere.
> 
> Only problem I see is that if someone decides to change an array
> from a static one to a dynamically allocated one, the ARRAY_SIZE
> macro will still work, but will have a completely wrong value.

Yes, but then again the current code would break just as badly, in
precisely the same fashion.  Besides, you would probably notice.

> Of course one would hope that someone doing this would find and fix
> code that thought it knew the length of the array.

Indeed.

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