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From: bruce@shell.co.nz (Bruce Clement)
Subject: If your only tool is a hammer,
 all your problems look like nails (was Re: C is 'better' than Ada because...)
Date: 1996/07/03
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Date: 1996-07-03T00:00:00+00:00
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In <qqloh2crie.fsf@tartarus.ucsd.edu> djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) writes:
...
>This just means you can't find an existing one, not that it's
>impossible.  Have you tried writing it yourself?  If you have problems
>with it in Ada, I bet you also have problems with it in standard C
>(ie, you can't tell how many bits are in a byte, or other binary
>format details).

#include <stdio.h>
#include <limits.h>
int main(void) {
   printf("According to the preprocessor symbol CHAR_BIT " 
	  "defined in clause 5.2.4.2.1\nthere are %u \"bits "
	  "for smallest object that is not a bit-field (byte)\"\n",
	  (unsigned)CHAR_BIT);
   return 0;
}

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