Octets calculation?

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> It's not rare in the DSP world.  TI's line of FP DSPs all had
> 32-bit bytes.  Where "byte" is used in the sense of the "C"
> standard as the smallest unite of addressable memory.

I thought the C standard used the word "char" for
that, not "byte".

If DSP people really use the word "byte" that
way, they're utterly barking, IMO. It's just too
confusing for words. (Or should I say octet-groups?-)

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
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