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|    Philipp Klaus Krause to All    |
|    Re: _BitInt(N)    |
|    23 Nov 25 12:46:10    |
      From: pkk@spth.de              Am 22.10.25 um 14:45 schrieb Thiago Adams:       >       >       > Is anyone using or planning to use this new C23 feature?       > What could be the motivation?       >       >              Saving memory by using the smallest multiple-of-8 N that will do. Also       being able to use bit-fields wider than int.              Saving memory for two reasons:              * On small embedded systems where there is very little memory       * For code that needs to be very fast on big systems to make data       structures fit into cache              Philipp              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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