Re: Brian Kernighan, maybe I'm not worthy, maybe I'm scum

spinoza1111 said:

On Dec 30, 10:25 pm, Richard Heathfield <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>

The C language places no upper limit on the size of a byte. Your reply
is predicated on the false assumption that bytes are required to be
precisely eight bits wide.

This isn't true in practice.

Analog SHARC (and plenty of other DSPs).

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