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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: "akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] add typeof_member() macro
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 22:57:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190530195724.GA2870@avx2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a32bb1376821422fa3c647c01f3f1a95@AcuMS.aculab.com>

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:37:42AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Alexey Dobriyan

> > +#define typeof_member(T, m)	typeof(((T*)0)->m)
> 
> Should probably be 't' (not 'T') and upper case ?

T comes from C++ where they uppercase types in template arguments.
It makes sense as types stand out sligthly around lowercase identifiers.

> Hmmm.... the #define is longer that what it expands to ...

It hides cast of 0 which is implementation detail :^)

Proper syntax would be

	typeof(struct foo::bar)

but one can only dream.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-30 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-29 19:07 [PATCH 1/2] add typeof_member() macro Alexey Dobriyan
2019-05-29 19:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] proc: use " Alexey Dobriyan
2019-05-29 22:33   ` Andrew Morton
2019-05-30 11:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] add " David Laight
2019-05-30 11:53   ` Joe Perches
2019-05-30 19:57   ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]

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