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Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient?

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
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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
      Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-03-12 20:40 -0700
    Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2020-03-12 16:38 -0400
      Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2020-03-12 20:44 +0000
        Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2020-03-12 17:00 -0400
          Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2020-03-13 09:35 +0000
            Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-13 11:12 +0100
      Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-03-12 22:16 +0000
        Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Francis Assissi <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-12 22:39 +0000
          Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2020-03-12 19:51 -0400
            Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-13 00:47 +0000
              Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2020-03-12 23:02 -0400
              Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-03-12 20:39 -0700
            Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-03-13 15:00 +0000
            Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2020-03-14 08:35 +0000
  Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2020-03-12 21:55 +0100
    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
  Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-13 11:33 +0100
    Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-13 11:03 +0000
      Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-13 14:31 +0100
        Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-13 15:12 +0000
          Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-13 18:03 +0100
            Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-13 18:01 +0000
              Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-13 19:06 +0100
                Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-03-13 19:12 +0000
      Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-13 13:34 +0000
        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
              Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-14 01:47 +0000
                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
  Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2020-03-13 03:52 -0700
  Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Guillaume <message@bottle.org> - 2020-03-13 16:41 +0100
    Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Francis Assissi <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-13 16:07 +0000
      Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-13 18:10 +0100
        Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Francis Assissi <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-13 19:32 +0000
          Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-03-13 16:08 -0400
            Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Francis Assissi <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-13 20:50 +0000
              Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? jameskuyper@stellarscience.com - 2020-03-13 16:05 -0700
                Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Francis Assissi <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-13 23:42 +0000
                Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-03-13 19:59 -0400
                Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Francis Assissi <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-14 00:07 +0000
                Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-03-13 20:27 -0400
                Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Francis Assissi <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-14 01:37 +0000
                Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-04-02 07:45 -0700
                Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-04-02 08:09 -0700
                Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2020-04-02 16:03 +0000
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      Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-03-13 14:30 -0400
        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
          Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-03-13 20:18 -0400
            Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Francis Assissi <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-14 00:34 +0000
              Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Francis Assissi <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-14 01:47 +0000
  Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-03-13 14:39 -0600
    Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? felix@palmen-it.de (Felix Palmen) - 2020-03-13 22:10 +0100
      Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-03-13 16:26 -0600
      Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-14 16:41 +0100
        Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? felix@palmen-it.de (Felix Palmen) - 2020-03-14 17:00 +0100
          Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-15 13:39 +0100
    Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-03-13 23:07 +0000
      Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-03-14 12:13 -0600
  Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2020-04-07 09:35 +0200

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