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From: aeusemrs@csun.UUCP (Mike Stump)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,net.sources
Subject: Re: binary radix (+ some source)
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Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 15:49:28 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 20 15:49:28 1987
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Reply-To: aeusemrs@csun.UUCP (Mike Stump)
Organization: California State University, Northridge
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Keywords: octal, hex, binary
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In article <2970@pegasus.UUCP> hansen@pegasus.UUCP (60021254-Tony L. Hansen;LZ 3B-315;6243) writes:
>< From: dcw@doc.ic.ac.uk (Duncan C White)
>< 2). In Article 1155 of comp.lang.c, bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM, says :
>< > How about allowing numbers to be specified in binary radix,
>< > as in 0b00110101 ? No existing code would be broken, and it
>< > would be very useful to those of us writing graphics code,
>< > ...
>< > As a corollary, support %b in printf and scanf.
>< I agree completely.
>I too agree.

One of the great things about writing your very own C compiler, is that you
get the source code!  And with the source code you can CHANGE things, and one
of the few things I did to my C compiler, was to add in binary constants, as
in 0b1001111.  I figure, If I ever give one of my programs to anybody worth
his weight, he could figure out what I meant, and change it, or if he had
source code to his compiler, add binary constants as a feature...

People of the net unite; someone, post the diffs to the Vax, and/or System V C
compiler to add binary constants, and everyone else, patch your C compiler, so
that it can understand binary constants, after all it will only make your C
compiler bigger by a few bytes, and you haver the memory to burn.  Do you want
to be one of the only people left with an outdated C compiler that does not
understand binary constants?

Please, no flames; read the above as an attemt to get people seriously
thinking about a nice feature.  The use of such a feature, until it is widely
supported, should be used with a little bit of caution; such as if anybody
posts a program to net.source (or whatever they call it this week) with a
0b111011 in it, they should expect to get flames!
-- 
Mike Stump, Cal State Univ, Northridge Comp Sci Department
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