Re: technology discussion → does the world need a "new" C ?

bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]

There's no 'byte' type. There's an odd selection of *5* char, short,
int, long and long long types which cover the *4* 8/16/32/64 bit
sizes.

You're right, there's no type named "byte".  Nobody said there was.
You wrote that "C didn't define a 'byte' at all.".  You were wrong.
C defines the word "byte" and uses it extensively.

[...]

My point was that this evolution was apparent at least 40 years ago.

And there are still C implementations with CHAR_BIT > 8, mostly for
DSPs.  Please feel free to ignore them, but don't ask everyone else to
pretend they don't exist.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */