Re: Coding style RFC: convert "for (i=0;i<ARRAY_SIZE(array);i++)" to "array_for_each(index, array)"

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>]

In article <1171324070.1528.25.camel@localhost> (at Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:47:50 -0800), Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> says:

> Now that most of the sizeof(array)/sizeof(array[0])
> conversions have been done (there are about 800 done
> and about another 130 left), perhaps it could be
> useful to change the code to use a define similar
> to the list_for_each
> 
> #define list_for_each(pos, head) \
> 	for (pos = (head)->next; prefetch(pos->next), pos != (head); \
>         	pos = pos->next)
> 
> perhaps
> 
> #define array_for_each(index, array) \
> 	for ((index) = 0; (index) < ARRAY_SIZE((array)); (index)++)

I dislike this; it is overkill.

list_for_each etc. are for list_head etc., of structures.
On the other hand, arrays are not.

It is very, very obvious how to access its members.

--yoshfuji
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