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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1999-01-25 14:52:13 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1999-01-25 14:52:13 +0000
commit89826ef42016c0ead8a1e4728d40757da70ebd34 (patch)
tree24fc1288db2fa71df6c0ab8b2720ddb905f46b38 /lib/argmatch.h
parenta2e1454d4bb21c123033a6b6ddcb06f42c95e238 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-89826ef42016c0ead8a1e4728d40757da70ebd34.tar.xz
(ARRAY_CARDINALITY): Define.
(ARGMATCH_ASSERT): New macro.
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diff --git a/lib/argmatch.h b/lib/argmatch.h
index 1cca39f60..d3f25cc33 100644
--- a/lib/argmatch.h
+++ b/lib/argmatch.h
@@ -35,6 +35,17 @@
# endif /* GCC. */
# endif /* Not PARAMS. */
+/* Assert there are as many real arguments as there are values
+ (argument list ends with a NULL guard). There is no execution
+ cost, since it will be statically evalauted to `assert (0)' or
+ `assert (1)'. Unfortunately there is no -Wassert-0. */
+
+# undef ARRAY_CARDINALITY
+# define ARRAY_CARDINALITY(Array) (sizeof ((Array)) / sizeof (*(Array)))
+
+# define ARGMATCH_ASSERT(Arglist, Vallist) \
+ assert (ARRAY_CARDINALITY ((Arglist)) == ARRAY_CARDINALITY ((Vallist)) + 1)
+
/* Return the index of the element of ARGLIST (NULL terminated) that
matches with ARG. If VALLIST is not NULL, then use it to resolve
false ambiguities (i.e., different matches of ARG but corresponding