> On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Martin Mares wrote:
>
> > +#define BITS_PER_LONG 32
> > #else
> > +#define BITS_PER_LONG 64
> > #endif
>
> what about a global, unconditional
>
> #define BITS_PER_LONG (sizeof(long)<<3)
That won't work; we want to be able to test BITS_PER_LONG with
preprocessor directives, and the preprocessor doesn't (and shouldn't)
know the size of anything.
-- Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]