From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 124070 invoked by alias); 20 Jun 2017 12:11:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 123884 invoked by uid 89); 20 Jun 2017 12:11:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mx1.redhat.com 501584DD5F Authentication-Results: ext-mx09.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: ext-mx09.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=fweimer@redhat.com DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 mx1.redhat.com 501584DD5F Subject: Re: manual: Refactor documentation of CHAR_BIT. To: Rical Jasan , libc-alpha@sourceware.org Cc: Joseph Myers , Zack Weinberg , Carlos O'Donell , Michael Kerrisk References: <20170617084202.4662-1-ricaljasan@pacific.net> <20170617084202.4662-2-ricaljasan@pacific.net> From: Florian Weimer Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:11:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170617084202.4662-2-ricaljasan@pacific.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-06/txt/msg00898.txt.bz2 On 06/17/2017 10:42 AM, Rical Jasan wrote: > +@defvr Macro CHAR_BIT > +@standards{C99, limits.h} > This is the number of bits in a @code{char}---eight, on most systems. > The value has type @code{int}. Current POSIX requires CHAR_BIT to be 8, and we might as well say so. Thanks, Florian