Re: intro

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

> For example, here's a snippet of code from imap4d.h that defines
> macros for the various IMAP states:
[..snip..]
>  #define STATE_LOGOUT    (1 << 3)
>
> I'm curious why these were defined this way...  It strikes me as
> a little inefficient.  Each time these are used, they are replaced
> with a bit-shift calculation

No, they are not. The compiler computes all immediate constants
on early stages of parse tree handling. It was described in K&R,
though I don't have the book right at hand to cite it :^)

Regards,
Sergey