From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] Define BITS_PER_BYTE
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:19:35 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dpjrg7$cvr$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1136474301.31922.1.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com
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
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2006-01-04 0:06 ` [PATCH] Shrinks sizeof(files_struct) and better layout Eric Dumazet
2006-01-04 9:11 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-04 10:12 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-01-04 10:28 ` Folkert van Heusden
2006-01-04 10:45 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-04 11:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-01-04 11:15 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-04 11:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-01-04 11:22 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-04 11:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-01-04 11:58 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-06 3:01 ` David Lang
2006-01-06 6:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-01-06 7:26 ` David Lang
2006-01-06 7:37 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-01-06 8:28 ` David Lang
2006-01-04 11:45 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-04 13:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-01-04 23:24 ` [2.6 patch] Define BITS_PER_BYTE Adrian Bunk
2006-01-05 7:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-05 15:18 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-05 19:19 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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