“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success”

Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R... by Kamq on Sunday July 09, 2023 @12:52PM (#36656121)

C doesn't really know about bytes. It has chars, but I believe there are some constraints on char, specifically, they have to be big enough to hold the ASCII charset. (I'm pulling real deep here, someone correct me if I'm wrong)

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Re:“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis R... by nitrix on Sunday July 09, 2023 @08:42PM (#36660642)

C11 3.6p1 byte "addressable unit of data storage large enough to hold any member of the basic character set of the execution environment"

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