[PATCH v3] manual: Refactor documentation of CHAR_BIT.

[Florian Weimer]

On 07/27/2017 01:28 PM, Rical Jasan wrote:
> On 06/22/2017 06:23 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 06/20/2017 03:44 PM, Rical Jasan wrote:
>>> @@ -628,11 +628,10 @@ There is no operator in the C language that can give you the number of
>>>  bits in an integer data type.  But you can compute it from the macro
>>>  @code{CHAR_BIT}, defined in the header file @file{limits.h}.
>>
>> Sorry for scope creep, but the paragraph is inaccurate: We now have
>> *_WIDTH macros, and you actually cannot easily compute the number of
>> usable bits in a portable manner.
>>
>> Rest of the patch looks fine to me.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Florian
> 
> Can I commit the refactoring [1] and prepare a follow-up patch?  The
> issues you point out in the diff context go even further in this
> section.

Sure, please go ahead.  Note that the hard freeze is starting really
soon now.

Thanks,
Florian