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j@the_one.epita.fr (Jedi/Sector One) wrote:
] [...]
]
]   Another problemes with the actual ANSI C revision is that there is no way of
] knowing how many items an array contains without an end mark. Just look at the
] first example I gave : how is it possible to know that there are 4 items at
] run-time ? The only way to do it would be to add an item like "0xff" at the
] end of that array, and then to test each time an item is processed, whether it
] is the end-mark constant or a classical value.
] 
]   Maybe the next C standard should solve this with something like
] 
]     int nbItems;
]     static char table[nbItems] = { 0x25, 0x3f, 0x7f, 0x32 };
] 
]   nbItems has not to be const, even in C++, as we expect it to be modified to
] the number of items following this initialized array.
] 
]   Greetings, Frank.

This problem is easily solved in the following way:

static char table[] = { 0x25, 0x3f, 0x7f, 0x32 };
int nbItems = sizeof table / sizeof *table;

joerg

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