Calculating array sizes in C - was: Re: Build regressions/improvements in v6.2-rc1
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Date: Tue Jan 17 2023 - 11:43:25 EST
Hi Geert!
On 1/6/23 16:17, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
I'm not seeing this one, but I am getting this one instead:
In file included from ./arch/sh/include/asm/hw_irq.h:6,
from ./include/linux/irq.h:596,
from ./include/asm-generic/hardirq.h:17,
from ./arch/sh/include/asm/hardirq.h:9,
from ./include/linux/hardirq.h:11,
from ./include/linux/interrupt.h:11,
from ./include/linux/serial_core.h:13,
from ./include/linux/serial_sci.h:6,
from arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh2/setup-sh7619.c:11:
./include/linux/sh_intc.h:100:63: error: division 'sizeof (void *) / sizeof (void)' does not compute the number of array elements [-Werror=sizeof-pointer-div]
100 | #define _INTC_ARRAY(a) a, __same_type(a, NULL) ? 0 : sizeof(a)/sizeof(*a)
| ^
./include/linux/sh_intc.h:105:31: note: in expansion of macro '_INTC_ARRAY'
105 | _INTC_ARRAY(vectors), _INTC_ARRAY(groups), \
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
The easiest fix for the latter is to disable CONFIG_WERROR.
Unfortunately I don't know a simple solution to get rid of the warning.
I did some research and it seems that what the macro _INT_ARRAY() does with "sizeof(a)/sizeof(*a)"
is a commonly used way to calculate array sizes and the kernel has even its own macro for that
called ARRAY_SIZE() which Linus asks people to use here [1].
So, I replaced _INTC_ARRAY() with ARRAY_SIZE() (see below), however the kernel's own ARRAY_SIZE()
macro triggers the same compiler warning. I'm CC'ing Michael Karcher who has more knowledge on
writing proper C code than me and maybe an idea how to fix this warning.
Thanks,
Adrian
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/3/428
diff --git a/include/linux/sh_intc.h b/include/linux/sh_intc.h
index c255273b0281..07a187686a84 100644
--- a/include/linux/sh_intc.h
+++ b/include/linux/sh_intc.h
@@ -97,14 +97,12 @@ struct intc_hw_desc {
unsigned int nr_subgroups;
};
-#define _INTC_ARRAY(a) a, __same_type(a, NULL) ? 0 : sizeof(a)/sizeof(*a)
-
#define INTC_HW_DESC(vectors, groups, mask_regs, \
prio_regs, sense_regs, ack_regs) \
{ \
- _INTC_ARRAY(vectors), _INTC_ARRAY(groups), \
- _INTC_ARRAY(mask_regs), _INTC_ARRAY(prio_regs), \
- _INTC_ARRAY(sense_regs), _INTC_ARRAY(ack_regs), \
+ ARRAY_SIZE(vectors), ARRAY_SIZE(groups), \
+ ARRAY_SIZE(mask_regs), ARRAY_SIZE(prio_regs), \
+ ARRAY_SIZE(sense_regs), ARRAY_SIZE(ack_regs), \
}
struct intc_desc {
--
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