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Re:My personal C coding style as of late 2023 by ggliv on Monday October 09, 2023 @09:37AM (#37820341)
Could you elaborate on the reasoning behind using byte length instead of bit length?

Most of the time when I use fixed-width int types I’m trying to create guarantees for bitwise operators. From my perspective I feel like it therefore makes the most sense to name types on a per-bit level.

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Re:My personal C coding style as of late 2023 by vitiral on Monday October 09, 2023 @07:10PM (#37826618)
We almost always talk in bytes. When trying to reason about alignment it's bytes, when reading a serial IO from a file it's bytes. I hardly ever think in bits and when I do, I think in hex not decimal.

I also like that it makes all the type names the same width (notably U1/U2 vs u8/u16).

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