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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Size of SysV "block" (really: byte != 8 bits)
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Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 21:17:50 EDT
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Re: memcpy() etc.

It also is not yet settled whether the mem* functions are to handle (char)s
or some other type of object representing bytes, e.g. (short char)s.  At
the moment the C language does not distinguish between a byte and a char,
although it makes no presumption about the size of a char except that it
must be at least 8 bits (it can be larger).  The multiple-byte character
issue has not yet been decided, unless it happened at the Paris X3J11
meeting in June which I had to miss.