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echo: os2prog
to: Nick Mann
from: Ed Blackman
date: 1995-12-21 18:39:16
subject: malloc question

On  in a message to Ed Blackman, Nick Mann wrote:

NM> |     printf("An unsigned integer will hold up to %u\n", UINT_MAX);
NM> |
NM> |     printf("Therefore, integers are %.0f-bit\n",
NM> |         (log(UINT_MAX * 1.0) / log(2.0)) );

NM> What's wrong with:

NM> int main(void)
NM> {
NM> printf("Unsigned Ints have %u bits.\n",
NM> sizeof(unsigned int) * CHAR_BIT);

NM> return 0;
NM> }

Well, the only thing I can see wrong is that I didn't think of it.



Ed Blackman

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