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Re: manual: Refactor documentation of CHAR_BIT.
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Rical Jasan <ricaljasan at pacific dot net>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, Michael Kerrisk <mtk dot manpages at gmail dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 14:11:13 +0200
- Subject: Re: manual: Refactor documentation of CHAR_BIT.
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On 06/17/2017 10:42 AM, Rical Jasan wrote:
> +@defvr Macro CHAR_BIT
> +@standards{C99, limits.h}
> This is the number of bits in a @code{char}---eight, on most systems.
> The value has type @code{int}.
Current POSIX requires CHAR_BIT to be 8, and we might as well say so.
Thanks,
Florian