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From: "Johan Henriksson" <johan DOT he AT telia DOT com>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Portability and size_t type related question
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 11:34:41 +0200
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-----Original Message-----
From: Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia <XXguille AT XXiies DOT XXes>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Friday, May 14, 1999 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: Portability and size_t type related question


>El día Thu, 13 May 1999 17:15:36 +1000, Chris Mears
><chris_mears AT softhome DOT net> escribió:
>
>><snip>
>>>
>>> > Like 'char' is always 1 byte.
>>>
>>> That's not true, either.  There are compilers (mostly for embedded
>>> systems) where `char' is 32-bit wide.
>>>
>>
>>I thought the ANSI standard said that 'char' must be one byte wide.  Am
>>I wrong, or are those compilers non-standard?
>
>You are right. It is simply that a byte can be 32-bit wide for some
>systems.

Well, then all PC-compilers should use 8-bit=char so I think that's portable
enough. I suppose we don't do any embedded systems here, or?

>
>Regards:
>GUILLE
>----
>Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
>XXguille AT XXiies DOT XXes (ya sabes :-)
>