Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"]
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Oct 13 01:28:24 EDT 2017
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2017-10-13, Stefan Ram <ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>> 1 byte
>>
>> addressable unit of data storage large enough to hold
>> any member of the basic character set of the execution
>> environment«
>>
>> ISO C standard
Hmmm. So an architecture with memory addressed in octets
and Unicode as the basic character set would have a
char of 8 bits and a byte of 32 bits?
Not only does "byte" not always mean "8 bits", but
"char" isn't always short for "character"...
--
Greg
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