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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: binary constants (??)
Keywords: macro, constant, binary
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Date: 21 Nov 89 05:33:04 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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Remember that for many purposes, you can use octal "bits" instead of
true binary.  Only when bit space is crucial does it matter.

I agree 0bNNNNN would have been nice, however, and I sure wish X3J11
had taken time off from rabbinical hairsplitting to add it.  Ah well.
-- 
'We have luck only with women -- not spacecraft!'     \\  Tom Neff
 -- R. Kremnev, builder of failed Soviet FOBOS probes //  tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET