Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 00:01:21 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fw.c Message-ID: <199907300701.AAA00781@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:17:37 %2B1000." <199907300117.LAA09942@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> >> > > 8 -> NBBy > >> > "number of bits by byte"? > >> Yep, that's exactly what it is. NBBY is much preferred to hardcoding 8 :) > > > >BITS_PER_BYTE is much preferred to NBBY. > > You mean "Standard C's CHAR_BIT is much preferred to NBBy" when the number > of bits in a byte is actually wanted. CHAR_BIT is ambiguous (it implies bits-per-character). NBBY is needlessly short (it sounds like a BSDism). BITS_PER_MACHINE_BYTE is probably as good a name as any. My word games for the day. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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