Unfortunately you cannot use static in array typedefs, which really blows. So you have to have an extra constant to keep track of the array size in order to use

Unfortunately you cannot use static in array typedefs, which really blows. So you have to have an extra constant to keep track of the array size in order to use it. If it worked on typedefs, you could just make the array parameter the appropriate type and derive the array's count with sizeof(array_type_t).