From: lintux AT dds DOT nl (Wilmer van der Gaast) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Length of Chars... Date: 22 Jan 2000 00:01:48 GMT Organization: WorldOnline - The Internet Communication Company Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <3888ED7B DOT DF52FEB2 AT ou DOT edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: vp177-202.worldonline.nl X-Trace: nereid.worldonline.nl 948503192 24470 195.241.177.202 (22 Jan 2000 01:06:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster AT worldonline DOT nl NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Jan 2000 01:06:32 GMT User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.7 (UNIX) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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) ICQ 55707076 Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread :)