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From: Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
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On Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:14:20 GMT
scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wibbled:
>Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org writes:
>>On Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:20:05 GMT
>>scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wibbled:
>>>Muttley@dastardlyhq.com writes:
>>>>On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 16:33:46 +0100
>>>>bart <bc@freeuk.com> gabbled:
>>>>>On 02/04/2025 16:12, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
>>>>>> Meh.
>>>>>
>>>>>What's the problem with it? Here, tell me at a glance the magnitude of 
>>>>>this number:
>>>>>
>>>>>     10000000000
>>>>
>>>>And how often do you hard code values that large into a program? Almost
>>>>never I imagine unless its some hex value to set flags in a word.
>>>
>>>Every day, several times a day. 16 hex digit constants are very
>>>common in my work.  The digit separator really helps with readability,
>>
>>Oh really? What are you doing, hardcoding password hashes?
>
>Modeling a very complicated 64-bit system-on-chip.

If you're hardcoding all that you're doing it wrong. Should be in some kind
of loaded config file.