Re: how to test this piece of C code

subramanian100in@xxxxxxxxx, India said:

You have suggested to have MAX_BLOCK_LENGTH as #defined. I have a
question on this. If I declare it as a const size_t and initialize
with SIZE_MAX, won't it help in getting seen by the debugger or is
there any specific reason for using #define here ?

Whatever you think best. I know some people object to the use of the
preprocessor even for the simplest #defines, but I've never been one of
them.

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