Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"

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

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.

We've had bitfields for years which cover most use cases.

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Bitfields and binary literals are completely different things! A binary literal looks like this (if I got the prefix right):
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     0b1_1101_1101         // the decimal value 447 or hex value 1DD
     0b11011101            // same thing without the separators

Well fair enough, I thought it was some new binary type. Yes those are useful.
C++ has had then for over 10 years so you've been able to use them for a long
time.