Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xmon/ppc-opc: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro

Joe Perches [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, 2018-10-04 at 19:10 +0200, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:

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Use ARRAY_SIZE instead of dividing sizeof array with sizeof an element.

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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/xmon/ppc-opc.c b/arch/powerpc/xmon/ppc-opc.c

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@@ -966,8 +966,7 @@ const struct powerpc_operand powerpc_operands[] =
   { 0xff, 11, NULL, NULL, PPC_OPERAND_SIGNOPT },
 };
 
-const unsigned int num_powerpc_operands = (sizeof (powerpc_operands)
-					   / sizeof (powerpc_operands[0]));
+const unsigned int num_powerpc_operands = ARRAY_SIZE(powerpc_operands);

It seems this is unused and could be deleted.

The code in this file is copied from binutils.

We don't want to needlessly diverge it.

I've said this before:

  https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/874lfxjnzl.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au/ (local)

Is there some way we can blacklist this file from checkpatch, Coccinelle
etc?

cheers