Re: portable way to get highest bit set?

From	Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com>
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Subject	Re: portable way to get highest bit set?
Date	2023-10-11 15:17 +0300
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David Brown:

> But he/she also needs to say if 8-bit values are all that
> are of interest, when considering portability.

Yes, endianness, and then a hackish way to hanle it is to
use socket functions.  Hackish, because conceptualy that
means the reliance of a general low-level function on a
more specific and higher-level function/library.

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portable way to get highest bit set? candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> - 2023-10-11 01:56 -0500
  Re: portable way to get highest bit set? Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2023-10-11 10:27 +0300
    Re: portable way to get highest bit set? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-10-11 11:31 +0200
      Re: portable way to get highest bit set? Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2023-10-11 12:33 +0300
        Re: portable way to get highest bit set? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-10-11 13:58 +0200
          Re: portable way to get highest bit set? Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2023-10-11 15:17 +0300
            Re: portable way to get highest bit set? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-10-11 16:22 +0200
              Re: portable way to get highest bit set? Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2023-10-11 18:08 +0300
              Re: portable way to get highest bit set? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-10-11 17:20 +0100
                Re: portable way to get highest bit set? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-10-11 18:28 +0200
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        Re: portable way to get highest bit set? candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> - 2023-10-11 19:26 -0500
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