numeric_limits<char>::digits = 7 ?
R. Sinoradzki
sinoradz@student.uni-kl.de
Thu May 3 07:10:00 GMT 2001
Hi,
I want to use a bitset to store a double.
So I tried bitset< numeric_limits<char>::digits * sizeof(double) >.
Then I noticed, that numeric_limits<char>::digits is set to 7.
This is different from CHAR_BIT = 8 in <climits>.
What is the reason to use different values?
bye, Ralf
P.S:
machine is i686 Linux(debian)
gcc-3.0 from 2 days old CVS tree
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