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Re:C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake by Maxatar on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:40AM (#49878748)
You are mixing some things up. Yes the `sizeof(char)` is defined to always be 1 by the standard... but the size of char is not 1, it's defined by CHAR_BIT which can in principle vary from platform to platform.
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