Re: [PATCH v2 17/20] linux/array_size.h: Add __is_array(a) to help readability

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 2:01 PM Alejandro Colomar
<alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  /* &a[0] degrades to a pointer: a different type from an array */
> -#define __must_be_array(a)  __must_be(!__same_type((a), &(a)[0]))
> +#define __is_array(a)  (!__same_type((a), &(a)[0]))
> +
> +#define __must_be_array(a)  __must_be(__is_array(a))

I'd go the other way here if you want to improve this, and open-code it
to avoid nested macros. That produces more readable error messages
with recent compilers that try to unwind each macro one at a time.

      Arnd