why are magic numbers preferred?

Bernhard Fischer rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Wed Apr 16 16:59:28 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 05:59:45PM +0200, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
>Please consider the 1st attachment as a POC, and then the 2nd attachment,
>which is more dearer to me ;-)

Some of these could perhaps go into the "library tuning", if vda likes
it.

Still, i think you're overdoing it a bit. Funny, i _though_ we had
# define KB (1024)
# define MB (1024*1024)

but i do not see them (anymore).

[]
> #include "libbb.h"
> 
>+#define FOUR    4
>+#define ONE_KB  1024
>+#define FOUR_KB (FOUR * ONE_KB)

This somehow reminds me of those people who made a fake-script wrapper
that was able to run ontop of both bash and csh -- was it SciTech? don't
remember.



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