Followup to: <[email protected]>
By author: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <[email protected]>
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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