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Followup to: <1136474301.31922.1.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> By author: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 08:03 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > Oh no :( This sounds as uncommon as CHAR_BIT in C. > > CHAR_BIT is completely unclear. BITS_PER_BYTE is self-evident, and > makes it a lot more obvious when you're doing arithmetic that involves > counting bits. > Tough cookies. The standard name for this define is CHAR_BIT, and anyone who doesn't know that "char" means byte in C doesn't know the C language. "char" certainly doesn't mean "character" in this day of UTF-8 and friends. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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