On Tuesday 23 February 2010 16:39:02 Cathey, Jim wrote: > >Could you tell me where in the C language speci it's required? > > Page 82 of K&R? > > Even CP/M systems handled this. > > -- Jim
Never read K&R. I learned C the year after the first ANSI standard came out, on a compiler that supported that. But it's good to know. (I'm aware of what all the versions I used _did_, just not sure what the standard actually required. I've never personally encountered a system with a "char" that wasn't 8 bits either, but I'm told they were out there...) Thanks, Rob -- Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
