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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof(char)
Message-ID: <2336@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 88 18:26:54 GMT
References: <11702@brl-adm.ARPA> <243@eagle_snax.UUCP> <2245@geac.UUCP> <2809@haddock.ISC.COM> <17395@watmath.waterloo.edu> <7434@brl-smoke.ARPA> <2328@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <2328@bsu-cs.UUCP> I wrote:
>And nowhere do I find
>K&R saying that byte == char == 1 unit is simply a compiler peculiarity
>and not a design assumption in the language.

Looking again, more carefully this time, I find this on page 188:

     A byte is undefined by the language except in terms of the value
     of sizeof.

And yet, looking at the extensive discussion of a function alloc() to
allocate memory and a portable implementation of it, we find that char
and byte are used synonymously in the examples given.  See pages 96-98
and then 173-177.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi