On Jan 10, 2004, at 16:59, Philippe Verdy wrote:
The standard C/C++ libraries would work in such environment, because there's
no requirement for the required condition "sizeof(char)=1" meaning that the
physical address is incremented by 1, just the requirement that the "char"
datatype must be the minimum allocatable unit of memory when using
malloc()/free(), and that this datatype should be large enough to store at
least ASCII uppercase letters, digits and a few symbols (this means that a
"char" would need to be at least 6 bits).
Actually, both the C and C++ standards require that the char type be at least 8-bits. that is, the signed char type must be able to represent the values in the range [-127, 127], and the unsigned char type must be able to represent the values in the range [0, 255]. Any C or C++ compiler that cannot meet those requirements is non-conformant.
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