Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2017-10-13, Stefan Ram <r...@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"...

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