This code is inspired by a similar feature found in ccan[1],
that enforces that the parameter passed to ARRAY_SIZE() is
always an array and not a generic pointer. This is a slightly modified
version that will work if the macro is expanded outside of a function
body.
The check is performed by comparing if typeof(array) and
typeof(&array[0]) are of a different type. Due to the way arrays
decays to pointers in C, if one passes a pointer, the types won't be
compatible and a compile time assertion will fail.
No bugs have been found with this change, but since there's no runtime
or size overheads, there's no reason to not enable it.
[1] https://github.com/rustyrussell/ccan/blob/master/ccan/array_size/\
array_size.h
Change-Id: I6c321714d0024298e593176be43b2d0b5362cc0d
Signed-off-by: Leandro Pereira <leandro.pereira@intel.com>
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