Re: [2.6 patch] Define BITS_PER_BYTE

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <1136474301.31922.1.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 08:03 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> > Oh no :( This sounds as uncommon as CHAR_BIT in C.
> 
> CHAR_BIT is completely unclear.  BITS_PER_BYTE is self-evident, and
> makes it a lot more obvious when you're doing arithmetic that involves
> counting bits.
> 

Tough cookies.  The standard name for this define is CHAR_BIT, and
anyone who doesn't know that "char" means byte in C doesn't know the C
language.  "char" certainly doesn't mean "character" in this day of
UTF-8 and friends.

	-hpa

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