Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] strings: helper for maximum decimal encoding of an unsigned integer | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Date | Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:00:47 +0200 |
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On Fre, 2012-09-14 at 16:25 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Friday 2012-09-14 15:46, Jim Rees wrote: > >Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >A pure K&R-C version would use a string: > > >#define base10len(i) "\0x1\0x3\0x5\0x8\0x0A\0x0D\0x0F\0x11\0x14"[sizeof(i)] > > >(if I converted them properly into hexadecimal) > > The syntax is \x01\x03\x05... > > > >K&R doesn't have the \x escape, only \0 (octal).
We cuold use octal too.
> People recommend K&R only for the introductory reading, not for its > actuality.
And I actually used it to show that no gcc-isms are necessary. ANSI-C is fine too for that case.
Bernd -- Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at LUGA : http://www.luga.at
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