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Date:   Fri, 25 Sep 2020 18:42:52 +0100
From:   Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] <sys/param.h>: Add nitems() and snitems() macros
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On 25/09/20 18:30 +0200, Alejandro Colomar via Libstdc++ wrote:
>I have a similar number of ARRAY_SIZE() and ARRAY_SSIZE().
>I could have '#define snitems(arr) ((ptrdiff_t)nitems(arr))' in my projects,
>but is it really necessary?

The barrier for adding something to glibc headers should be a LOT
higher than "I could [do it in my own code], but is it really
necessary?"

>Did I convince you? :-)

No.