Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"

On Fri, 04 Apr 2025 13:42:04 GMT
scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wibbled:

Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org writes:

On Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:14:20 GMT
scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wibbled:

Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org writes:

On Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:20:05 GMT
scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wibbled:

Muttley@dastardlyhq.com writes:

On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 16:33:46 +0100
bart <bc@freeuk.com> gabbled:

On 02/04/2025 16:12, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:

Meh.

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What's the problem with it? Here, tell me at a glance the magnitude of
this number:
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    10000000000

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And how often do you hard code values that large into a program? Almost
never I imagine unless its some hex value to set flags in a word.

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Every day, several times a day. 16 hex digit constants are very
common in my work.  The digit separator really helps with readability,

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Oh really? What are you doing, hardcoding password hashes?

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Modeling a very complicated 64-bit system-on-chip.

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If you're hardcoding all that you're doing it wrong. Should be in some kind
of loaded config file.

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You're flailing around in the dark.  Again.

Its good practice. Feel free to not follow it.