Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 0xdeadbeef vs 0xdeadbeefL | From | Harald Arnesen <> | Date | Thu, 08 Jul 2004 01:17:36 +0200 |
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tom st denis <tomstdenis@yahoo.com> writes:
> Point is 0xDEADBEEFUL is just as simple to type and avoids any sort of > ambiguitity. It means unsigned long. No question about it. No having > to refer to subsection 12 of paragraph 15 of section 23 of chapter 9 to > figure that out.
If people write either 0XdeadbeefUL or 0xDEADBEEFul, fine. But this is a place where character case really makes a difference in readibility-
> Why people are fighting over this is beyond me. Fine, write it as > 0xDEADBEEF see what the hell I care. Honestly. Open debate or what? > > And I don't need mr. Viro coming down off his mountain saying "oh you > fail it" because I don't know some obscure typing rule that I wouldn't > come accross because *** I AM NOT LAZY ***. Hey mr. Viro what have you > contributed to the public domain lately? Anything I can harp on in > public and abuse?
I think you will find that mr. Viro has contributed quite a lot :-) -- Hilsen Harald. - 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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