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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof(char)==1 (was: Long Chars)
Message-ID: <7529@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 23 Mar 88 20:56:04 GMT
References: <7447@brl-smoke.ARPA> <439@splut.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <439@splut.UUCP> jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) writes:
>I don't know how much existing code this would break (though I'd bet
>there would be quite a bit of it). It does mean that I, too, will be
>careful not to make that assumption...

Dennis certainly thought sizeof(char) SHOULD ==1 last time I asked
him about it, and there is indeed a large body of code that assumes
this.  As it now stands it is required for ANSI C.