[chbot] naming of variables

[Charles Manning]

Jack has said to me he can add a Chch leg to his Australia/NZ trip if
he gets 15 attendees.

Is there enough interest?


On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Volker Kuhlmann
<list0570 at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> On Thu 06 Aug 2015 09:55:58 NZST +1200, Michael Field wrote:
>
>> I strongly
>> agree with like adding units on variable that hold quantities.
>
> Yes! No confusion about their scale.
>
>> I sit on
>> the fence of the "uint8_t" vs "unsigned char" debate.
>
> No way!! char is NOT guaranteed to be one byte. It is guaranteed to be
> the smallest quantity the architecture can handle, so it's
> architecture-specific. Bad news. I was programming some TI DSPs once,
> 32bit architecture, no byte instructions, you wanted to store a
> character, that's 32 bits thanks. And sizeof(char) is guaranteed equal
> to 1, so you're stuffed. That's why uint8_t became necessary - it's a
> hardware abstraction. On that DSP the compiler would have to substitute
> multiple instructions, but it stays 8 bits.
>
> And the best thing about Jack Ganssle is, he is allowed to have his
> opinions... ;-)))
>
> Volker
>
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