On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:58:30PM +0530, Sukrit Sangwan wrote:
> also i want to ask why not use simply 8 instead of sizeof(u8).

That would be 1 most of the time. sizeof returns the size in bytes
(according to the C reference manual in K&R's book).

Apart from that, sizeof(u8) is more explicit about the intention.

HTH,
        Jonathan Neuschäfer

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