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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? |
| Date | 2020-03-13 01:05 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <871rpxrrnm.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
| References | <r4e5ff$t02$1@dont-email.me> <87o8t1s2gt.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <YDyaG.524129$sH2.288535@fx18.am4> |
Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes: > On 12/03/2020 21:11, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> Francis Assissi <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes: <cut> >>> #define LENGTH 32 >> >> Keeping your fingers crossed that that is enough! One day you will >> enhance the code to deal with, say, negative numbers and you might >> forget to change this. You can use sizeof and CHAR_BIT to calculate a >> size that is big enough. > > For generating binary, the largest likely to be needed is 64 > characters for 64-bit numbers. Plus one more for a terminating > zero. Plus I think up to 15 more if separators, every 4 digits, are > added into the output (a good idea with binary). > > Plus two more if a prefix such as '0b' is added. > > You might add one more for a sign, but I think that would be unusual > for binary output (which I might also prefer with leading zeros). > > In practise just make this temporary array 128 characters, or 256 if > planning to work with 128-bit values. In practise I'd make the buffer the size it needs to be, with a nice explanatory comment. -- Ben.
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How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Francis Assissi <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-12 20:18 +0000
Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-12 20:26 +0000
Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Francis Assissi <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-12 20:30 +0000
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Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Francis Assissi <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-12 21:56 +0000
Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2020-03-12 23:26 +0100
Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-12 21:11 +0000
Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Francis Assissi <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-12 21:57 +0000
Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-12 22:23 +0000
Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-13 01:05 +0000
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Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-13 11:03 +0000
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Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-13 15:00 +0000
Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-13 20:34 +0000
Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-13 21:41 +0000
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Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-14 12:24 +0000
Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-14 16:35 +0000
Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-14 18:05 +0000
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Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Francis Assissi <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-14 00:07 +0000
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Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Francis Assissi <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-13 20:54 +0000
Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-13 23:10 +0000
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