Re: HAVE_FTIME, src/m/vax.h, and src/m in general

[Paul Eggert]

On 05/20/2012 06:54 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Why use
> 
>    #define BITS_PER_SHORT BITS_OF_SIGNED_MAX (SHRT_MAX)
> 
> rather than
> 
>    #define BITS_PER_SHORT (CHAR_BIT * sizeof (short))

Mainly because sizeof does not work in '#if', and these
macros must work in '#if'.  Or at least some of them must
do so, and we might as well have them all work.

There's a brief comment to this effect in the description of
BITS_OF_SIGNED_MAX.