Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cca!mirror!ima!haddock!karl
From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Absolute size of 'short'
Message-ID: <7122@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 7 Sep 88 17:39:03 GMT
References: <1988Sep6.121051.21516@ateng.uucp>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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chip@ateng.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>According to karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer):
>>(One admitted flaw: the bitwidth must be specified directly in this scheme;
>>you can't compute it at compile-time.)
>
>Perhaps you can [using token pasting]

I thought of that, but it's not particularly useful, since it won't handle
`#define COLORBITS (4+5)'.  It could be done with m4, but cpp has no option to
preevaluate the RHS.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint