Re: [patch 07/26] Add INIT_ARRAY() to kernel.h (update 2)

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To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...>

Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...>, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...>, <akpm@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, <linux-kernel@...>

Subject: Re: [patch 07/26] Add INIT_ARRAY() to kernel.h (update 2)

Date: Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 6:50 pm

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 05:10:54PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
quoted text> Array initializers in the body of a function causes unbalanced brackets which
> syntax highlighting editors such as vim have problems with. Fix this by creating
> the INIT_ARRAY() macro.
> 
> It is used to declare arguments passed as function parameters such as:
> text_poke(addr, INIT_ARRAY(unsigned char, 0xf0, len), len);

quoted text> +#define INIT_ARRAY(type, val, len) ((type[]) {[0 ... (len)-1] = (val)})

While we are at useless macro territory, let's name it MAKE_ARRAY because
it's exactly what it does.
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[patch 07/26] Add INIT_ARRAY() to kernel.h, Mathieu Desnoyers, (Thu Jan 24, 4:27 pm)

Re: [patch 07/26] Add INIT_ARRAY() to kernel.h, H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Jan 24, 7:03 pm)

Re: [patch 07/26] Add INIT_ARRAY() to kernel.h, Randy Dunlap, (Thu Jan 24, 4:58 pm)

Re: [patch 07/26] Add INIT_ARRAY() to kernel.h, Mathieu Desnoyers, (Thu Jan 24, 5:04 pm)

Re: [patch 07/26] Add INIT_ARRAY() to kernel.h, Jan Engelhardt, (Fri Jan 25, 4:03 am)

Re: [patch 07/26] Add INIT_ARRAY() to kernel.h, H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Jan 24, 7:04 pm)

Re: [patch 07/26] Add INIT_ARRAY() to kernel.h, Mathieu Desnoyers, (Fri Jan 25, 9:14 am)

Re: [patch 07/26] Add INIT_ARRAY() to kernel.h, Stefan Richter, (Thu Jan 24, 6:02 pm)

Re: [patch 07/26] Add INIT_ARRAY() to kernel.h (update 2), Mathieu Desnoyers, (Thu Jan 24, 6:10 pm)

Re: [patch 07/26] Add INIT_ARRAY() to kernel.h (update 2), Alexey Dobriyan, (Thu Jan 24, 6:50 pm)

Re: [patch 07/26] Add INIT_ARRAY() to kernel.h, Jan Engelhardt, (Thu Jan 24, 4:39 pm)

Re: [patch 07/26] Add INIT_ARRAY() to kernel.h (updated), Mathieu Desnoyers, (Thu Jan 24, 4:54 pm)

Re: [patch 07/26] Add INIT_ARRAY() to kernel.h (updated), Jan Engelhardt, (Thu Jan 24, 5:08 pm)

Re: [patch 07/26] Add INIT_ARRAY() to kernel.h (updated), Mathieu Desnoyers, (Thu Jan 24, 5:18 pm)


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