On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 5:17 PM, David Given <dg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hmm. True. But even so, it's still not right on my system, which doesn't > use 8-bit bytes. (It's word addressable where each word can contain any > value, so sizeof(int) == sizeof(double) == sizeof(char) == 1.) Ah, I see. I was thinking some thing else. What platform exactly is that? > Should there, then, be another symbol to define the number of bits in a > byte, distinct from the number of bits in a char? Byte need to big enough to hold the char. Using bits_in_byte is better. There might be other place in sparse assume byte is 8 bits. Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html