[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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