Re: The integral type 'byte' (was Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?)

David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
[...]

Thus pretty much any programmer in the last 50 years sees "byte" as
synonymous with 8-bit octet, including C programmers, and for the last
30 years or so it has been the ISO standard definition of the
term.

What ISO standard definition are you referring to?  The ISO C standard
certainly doesn't define a "byte" to be 8 bits.  I'd be surprised if any
other ISO standard did so.

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