Re: [OT] Re: 2 stupid array questions!!

From: Alan Balmer (albalmer_at_att.net)
Date: 10/10/03 

Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:26:41 -0700

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:23:45 +0200, "Ivan Vecerina"
<ivecATmyrealboxDOTcom> wrote:

>> > // returns the size of the C array passed as a param
>> > // This is safer than the sizeof(a)/sizeof(a[0]) trick...
>> > template <typename T, int N> inline
>> > int arraySize(T (&)[N]) { return N; }
>>
>> This can only be used in the scope of the declaration of the array you're
>> going to pass along.
>
>Yes. And it will produce a compile error when mis-used.
>As stated in my comment, this is much safer than the classic sizeof trick.

It *always* produces a compile-time error in C.

*Please* move this thread to a C++ group. 

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Al Balmer
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