On Thu, 24 May 2007, Mike McCarty wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
[snip]
sizeof(char) == 1 is guaranteed by the standard. There's no reference to
"bytes", but it is commonly accepted that the char type is a byte.
Erm, from the Standard:
3.4
[#1] byte
addressable unit of data storage large enough to hold any
member of the basic character set of the execution
environment
Also from the Standard:
3.5
[#1] character
bit representation that fits in a byte
6.5.3.4 The sizeof operator
...
[#2] The sizeof operator yields the size (in bytes) of its
operand, which may be an expression or the parenthesized
name of a type. The size is determined from the type of the
operand. The result is an integer. If the type of the
operand is a variable length array type, the operand is
evaluated; otherwise, the operand is not evaluated and the
result is an integer constant.
The word "byte" appears dozens of times in the Standard, not counting
its appearance in the word "multibyte".
OK, OK you win. Sheesh!
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
