syslog.h中的“0-big number”是什么意思?

What's the meaning of "0-big number" in syslog.h?

我chinese.I正在阅读syslog.h,我发现一个术语“0-big number”我无法understand.I理解空洞段落的意思,但我仍然对“0-big number”这个词很好奇,谁能解释一下这个词?

/*
* priorities/facilities are encoded into a single 32-bit quantity, where the
* bottom 3 bits are the priority (0-7) and the top 28 bits are the facility
* (0-big number).  Both the priorities and the facilities map roughly
* one-to-one to strings in the syslogd(8) source code.  This mapping is
* included in this file.

/* facility codes */
 #define LOG_KERN    (0<<3)  /* kernel messages */
 #define LOG_USER    (1<<3)  /* random user-level messages */
....
*/

作者只是决定将 28 个设置位 (2^28 - 1) 称为 大数 而不是写出来。所以这不是一个术语,而是指 大数