On Thursday 15 November 2001 16.29, Andres Kroonmaa wrote:
> Why? To conserve few KB of ram? Performance-wise char seems even faster.
> Not sure if we can use additional bits for good, though.
To conserve RAM, and have a smaller penalty of "overgrown" sizes. These are
often cleared as a whole.
> Can we create a special type whose size in bits can be changed without
> a need to fix other code?
Sure we can, just as the size of fd_set is determined at compile time..
Regards
Henrik
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