From: alain AT qnx DOT com (Alain Magloire) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Length of Chars... Date: 25 Jan 2000 01:15:30 GMT Organization: QNX Software Systems Lines: 16 Distribution: world Message-ID: <86itfi$l1r$1@gateway.qnx.com> References: <3888ED7B DOT DF52FEB2 AT ou DOT edu> <38896068 DOT 8C5927C0 AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> <388A0530 DOT DF2B2F31 AT ou DOT edu> <86hklo$dot$1 AT nets3 DOT rz DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: qnx.com X-Trace: gateway.qnx.com 948762930 21563 209.226.137.1 (25 Jan 2000 01:15:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT qnx DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Jan 2000 01:15:30 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT acp3bf DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) wrote: ... : For short: char, like all the C data types, is implementation defined. : You should never assume it's 8 bits, if you can help it, as that : renders your program unportable. Yes. But If I recall ISO C requires that the size/range of the char types be defined in . Althought 8 bits is widely use I've heard of implementations that used 9 bits. -- au revoir, alain ---- Aussi haut que l'on soit assis, on est toujours assis que sur son cul !!!