rebase src patch (Was: rebase not compilable)

[Brian Dessent]

Dave Korn wrote:

>   Only unsigned char *, isn't it?

Any kind of char *.  The standard says simply "a character type" (6.5
#7), and it also says that any signed or unsigned variant of the
effective type may also alias that type.

>   Looking at the mask value, it has ten bits set.  Hence 1024 possible
> results.  Looking at the 0 bits to the right of them, they are spaced in
> 1<<18 = 1<<(16+2) = 1<<16 * 1<<2 = 64k * 4 = 256kB units.  I did this in my
> head, so I may be having a brain fart for all I know.

You're right, my logic was wrong.

Brian

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