[PATCH v3] manual: Refactor documentation of CHAR_BIT.

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Thu Jun 22 13:23:00 GMT 2017


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



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