/**************************************************************** * * * Copyright 2009 Fidelity Information Services, Inc * * * * This source code contains the intellectual property * * of its copyright holder(s), and is made available * * under a license. If you do not know the terms of * * the license, please stop and do not read further. * * * ****************************************************************/ #ifndef GTM_SIZEOF_H_INCLUDED #define GTM_SIZEOF_H_INCLUDED /* Note: sizeof returns a "UNSIGNED long" type by default. When one of the operand in a relational operation * (<, <= etc.) is a SIGNED type and the other is UNSIGNED, both operands are typecast to UNSIGNED (NOT SIGNED) * before performing the comparison. This has unexpected consequences. For example, if a variable XYZ is signed * and has a negative value of -1, one would expect an "if (X < sizeof(char))" to return TRUE (because X is * negative and sizeof of anything is positive) but it actually returns FALSE. We have gotten bit by this at least * twice (C9E09-002635 and C9J10-003208). Therefore we define a SIZEOF macro that returns a "SIGNED long" type and * use it throughout the code base. This way "if (X < SIZEOF(char))" will evaluate correctly irrespective of * whether X is signed or unsigned (if X is signed, since SIZEOF is also signed, a signed comparison occurs; * if X is unsigned, since SIZEOF is signed, C's typecasting rules cause a unsigned comparison to occur). * * In a platform where long is 64-bits and SIZEOF is used in comparisons involving 32-bit variables, a compiler * warning is issued for every 64->32 bit auto cast (zOS compiler for now). To avoid this warning, we define the * SIZEOF macro to return a "SIGNED int" type on zOS. This will take care of the most common sizeof usages. * Whenever SIZEOF needs to be used in expressions involving 64-bit pointer quantities, use ((INTPTR_T)SIZEOF(...)). * Whenever SIZEOF needs to be used in expressions involving 64-bit integer quantities, use ((long)SIZEOF(...)). * * Some modules (like getcaps.c, gtm_tparm.c etc) do not include mdef.h for reasons stated in the corresponding * files but yet use sizeof. To enable those modules to use the safer SIZEOF macro as well, we create a separate * header file gtm_sizeof.h that is included explicitly by them as well as by mdef.h. */ #if defined(__MVS__) # define SIZEOF(X) ((int)(sizeof(X))) #else # define SIZEOF(X) ((long)sizeof(X)) #endif #endif