Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Nevin ":-]" Liber
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 03:44

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In article <kevinbDMv1Br.2C1@netcom.com>, kevin@frobozz.sccsi.com (Kevin
Brown) wrote:

> You've got to be kidding.  This is kiddie stuff...
> In case you were wondering, the magic "241 / 100" in the BUFLEN
> expression comes from log(256), which is the number of base-10 digits
> required to represent a single byte.

Sorry Kevin, but a "byte" under ANSI C is *not* guaranteed to be 8 bits.

For a bunch of people (Dan Pop, yourself, etc.) claiming that it is
trivial to write portable ANSI C code, you are certainly having a very
tough time getting this code correct.
-- 
        Nevin ":-)" Liber       nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU    (520) 293-2799

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From: nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 20:44:46 -0700
Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson "It's too dang hot!" Arizona
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