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From: David Cleaver <davidis AT ou DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Length of Chars...
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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 23:35:55 -0600
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Ummm, I guess when you say 8 bytes you mean 8 bits.  And this wouldn't
break the standard because a char is only typically defined as 8 bits. 
I was wondering if the compiler had anything to do with the size of a
char.  If the DJGPP team was thinking of, or even forsees the
possiblity, of changing the length of the char from 8-bits to more, I
was wanting to know.

Is this a compiler issue, or is this a machine architecture issue?  Does
the size of the char depend on the word-size of a computer, or how does
this work?  Could someone please let me know.  Thanks for your time.

-David C.

Wilmer van der Gaast wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 17:36:27 -0600, David Cleaver wrote:
> > I was wondering if there were any plans on changing the number of bits
> > in char from 8 to 16 or something like that?  Not that I want this.
> > It's just that in limits.h its explicitly defined as 8 bits and I was
> > thinking that someone might change this in the future.
>
> It would not make any sense to change the char type into 16 bits, since
> one character occupies 8 bytes. Changing this is breaking the standard,
> well except for (shudder...) Unicode... :(
> 
> --
> 
> Wilmer van der Gaast (lintux AT dds DOT nl)
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