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From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] Define BITS_PER_BYTE
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 07:18:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1136474301.31922.1.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0601050802590.10161@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>

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.

	<b


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-05 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20051108185349.6e86cec3.akpm@osdl.org>
     [not found] ` <437226B1.4040901@cosmosbay.com>
     [not found]   ` <20051109220742.067c5f3a.akpm@osdl.org>
     [not found]     ` <4373698F.9010608@cosmosbay.com>
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 [this message]
2006-01-05 19:19                 ` H. Peter Anvin

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