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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Long Chars
Message-ID: <8803250401.AA01184@champlain.dgp.toronto.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 88 04:01:16 GMT
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Posted: Thu Mar 24 23:01:16 1988
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*sigh*... it took me a full year of the start of my C career to decide
finally that sizeof(char) really was guaranteed to be 1, due to the
constraint that all objects were made up of chars (i.e. a char * can
traverse any object), recently formally formalized by ANSI, previously
informally formalized by the existence of memcpy() / bcopy() and friends.

Why do you need to make sizeof(char) == 2 just to make chars 16 bits?
Make chars 16 bits, keep sizeof(char) == 1, also make sizeof(int) == 1
and sizeof(long) == 2, etc.  If ANSI requires plain char to be signed in
all implementations in which sizeof(char) == sizeof(int), we're all set.

ajr
-- 
If you had eternal life, would you be able to say all the integers?