It's short for "Cardinal", as in "Cardinal number" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_numbers
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:12 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering where the names of various data types listed here may > come from: > http://www.x.org/wiki/XSessionManagementProtocol#Data_Types > > Most of them are clear, but these ones picked my interest: > > CARD8 > a one-byte unsigned integer > > CARD16 > a two-byte unsigned integer > > CARD32 > a four-byte unsigned integer > > Do you know what is the etymology of these type names? Do they mean > "character...", but what does "d" stand for? In Lisp "car" is a > function that returns the first element of the list but I think Xorg > has nothing to do with Lisp. > > History is interesting ;) > -- > <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > [email protected]: X.Org development > Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel > Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel > -- Jasper
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