Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:39:16 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: des@flood.ping.uio.no, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fw.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907291037360.13541-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <199907291156.NAA06494@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > On 29 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> >
> > > Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > > Log:
> > > > 8 -> NBBy
> > >
> > > "number of bits by byte"?
> >
> > Yep, that's exactly what it is. NBBY is much preferred to hardcoding 8 :)
>
> ok, so now we have to replace all explicit occurrence of other
> universal constants when used in a non-numeric context such as
>
> 0 -> ZERO
> 1 -> ONE
> 2 -> NSOB "Number of States of One Bit"
> 10 -> NFTH "Number of Fingers in Two Hands"
Hehe. The point is that '8' does not specifically make apparent that we
want the 'Number of Bits per BYtes'. Your examples of ZERO and ONE do
not make anything more clear, whereas NBBY does.
>
> cheers
> luigi
>
>
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