Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rewrite unnecessary duplicated code to use FIELD_SIZEOF().

On Dec 22 2006 09:43, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>that's the name as it *already* existed in kernel.h.  however, since
>no one was actually using it yet, it's a piece of cake to give it a
>better name.  either FIELD_SIZE or MEMBER_SIZE would work just fine.

I 'd go for MEMBER_SIZE. (Compare the proportion of literature that uses
'struct members' and 'struct fields'. On another note,
Regular ("agricultural/geometrical") meaning: Feld (ger.) <-> field
informatics: Feld <-> array)


	-`J'
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