On 02/10/18 15:06, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 02.10.18 at 15:21, <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> wrote:
>> On 02/10/18 11:12, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> --- a/xen/include/xen/lib.h
>>> +++ b/xen/include/xen/lib.h
>>> @@ -66,6 +66,10 @@
>>>  
>>>  #define ROUNDUP(x, a) (((x) + (a) - 1) & ~((a) - 1))
>>>  
>>> +#define count_va_arg_(dot, a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, a6, a7, a8, x, ...) x
>>> +#define count_va_arg(args...) \
>>> +    count_va_arg_(., ## args, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0)
>> This particular bit of review split out for obvious reasons.
>>
>> We already have __count_args() in the ARM SMCCC infrastructure.  Please
>> can we dedup that (broken out into a separate patch) rather than
>> introducing a competing version.
>>
>> The ARM version is buggy.  It is off-by-two in the base case, and
>> doesn't compile if fewer than two parameters are passed.
> If you had followed earlier discussion, you'd have known up front
> Julien's reaction. It is for that reason that I'm not trying to fiddle
> with the ARM code in this regard, despite agreeing with you that
> at the very least it _looks_ buggy.
>
>> This version functions correctly, but should be named with a plural.
> Why plural? Nothing in stdarg.h uses plural (including the header
> file name itself).

What has stdarg.h got to do with anything here?  (Irrespective, the name
of the header file alone is the only thing which is grammatically
questionable.)

count_va_args() should be plural for exactly the same reason that you
named its parameter as 'args'.

~Andrew

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