sizeof(char)
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Fri Sep 30 08:25:57 EST 2011
Roumen Petrov <openssh at roumenpetrov.info> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > To summarize: sizeof(char) == 1. Always. No exceptions.
> Sure. I cannot run my time machine and to return 20 years ago .
Even if you could, sizeof(char) would still be 1. The C standard
requires it.
> sizeof(char) == 1 does not mean that size if 8 bit . Did you read
> documentation for*AC_TYPE_INT8_T* ?
The code in defines.h assumes 8 bits per byte. That's not my doing, nor
does my patch change that fact, and it is completely orthogonal to the
issue I brought up, which was that sizeof(char) is always 1.
DES
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