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From: Muttley@dastardlyhq.com
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Subject: Re: counting_semaphore question
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 07:26:46 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 08:39:50 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> boringly babbled:
>On 12/09/2024 16:53, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
>>> might "ignore" the 8 in the type name and allow you to increment the
>>> variable well past 255. Come to think of it, the underlying reasons for
>> 
>> Incrementing integrals beyond their max value can have valid uses. 
>
>No, it cannot.

Clearly you've never done any low level networking where id fields are fixed
sized and will eventually wrap. Eg, TCP sequence number. I'm sure there are
a myriad of other examples.

>>> It is perfectly explained in the spec. And it's been thoroughly
>> 
>> LOL! Ah, a comedian has joined us!
>> 
>> 
>
>It certainly makes sense in the page at
>
><https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/counting_semaphore>

If you think thats clear I'd hate to see what you consider obtuse.

>But for some reason you have moved onto /wilful/ ignorance - you are 
>determined to ignore the information you have been given, to argue with 
>an insult people trying to help you, and to deride the whole concept.  I 
>really don't get it.  Did you want to know about the template parameter 
>or not?

Or alternatively some people just can't explain things very well. 2 people
managed it - you and the others didn't.