11 Aug
2002
11 Aug
'02
5:30 a.m.
"Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl> wrote,
Thu, 08 Aug 2002 19:28:18 +1000 (EST), Manuel M T Chakravarty <chak@cse.unsw.edu.au> pisze:
ANSI C guarantees that char is 1 byte (more precisely that "sizeof (char)" == 1).
It says that sizeof (char) == 1 but doesn't say that it means 8 bits. sizeof is measured in chars, whatever it is. But limits for values of char imply that it has at least 8 bits.
Perhaps we can assume some widely true facts even if ANSI C doesn't guarantee that if it makes life easier. For example that a C type corresponding to Int32 exists at all, and that different pointer types have the same representation - we already rely on that, don't we?
Yes. And as Ketil pointed out Worse Is Better. Manuel