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From: Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 15:08:01 +0100
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2018-03-14 13:48 GMT+01:00 Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com>:
> 2018-03-14 12:24 GMT+01:00 David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>:
>> Isn't using DECLARE_BITMAP() completely OTT when the maximum size is less
>> than the number of bits in a word?
>
> It allocates ceiling(size/8) "unsigned long"s, so yes.

Actually I meant ceiling(size/8/sizeof(unsigned long))
I'm sorry for the typo.

Salvatore