where does "CARD18" come from?
wempwer at gmail.com
wempwer at gmail.com
Sun May 19 22:12:44 PDT 2013
Hello,
I was wondering where the names of various data types listed here may
come from:
http://www.x.org/wiki/XSessionManagementProtocol#Data_Types
Most of them are clear, but these ones picked my interest:
CARD8
a one-byte unsigned integer
CARD16
a two-byte unsigned integer
CARD32
a four-byte unsigned integer
Do you know what is the etymology of these type names? Do they mean
"character...", but what does "d" stand for? In Lisp "car" is a
function that returns the first element of the list but I think Xorg
has nothing to do with Lisp.
History is interesting ;)
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