Dear Michal Simek,
In message 4E5F4883.3080409@monstr.eu you wrote:
Well I see it both ways ... 0x40000000 == 1 << 30 ... it's the same thing. On the other note, it's hard to count the zeroes in there AND you can mistake 0 and 8 in a huge series of those.
Also, you can have whatever you want in your repo if you seriously care to invest the energy into maintaining it just because you need to be stubborn. But it'd really be great if you invested that energy in a more productive manner ;-)
There are two points of view. And both have con & pro. I don't want to argue. Net custodian should decided if is OK or not.
I can parse 0x00200000 much faster than '1 << 21' so my personal preference for such masks is the raw hex numbers.
But this is just that: a personal preference. I see no problem with using either one or the other form, and I have no really strong preferences. In any case this should not be a reason for serious fights - it's a matter of taste issue, not more.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk