writing usb drivers under 8.x

[perryh at pluto.rain.com]

Jim Bryant <kc5vdj.freebsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> what kind of idiot defines a constant assignment for a 32k buffer as a 
> 15 bit left shift of 1?
>
> clever, yes.  but in production, stupid.
>
> a constant should be just that, a constant, and thus require no 
> computation at runtime.

Er, did you bother to look at the generated code before spouting off?
Most compilers, even as far back as K&R 1st edition, will compute
constant expressions like that at compile time.