[Fedora-packaging] %bits macro?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Feb 29 22:02:40 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 16:50 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 14:48 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > It might me useful to have a %bits macro automatically set to 32 or 64 
> > as appropriate.  Does this seem useful or is there a better way?
> 
> I'm not aware of a better way, this would be quite useful IMHO.

A better way would be to rewrite any code requiring such tricks to not
require them.

In modern C/C++ there hardly is any need for such band-aids (cf.
stdint.h, inttypes.h, limits.h)

Ralf





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