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Re: Reading and writing GSL random number generators
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 05:24:48PM -0400, Martin Jansche wrote:
> > Is and will char always be 8 bit?
> Doesn't look like it. Quoting the C99 standard: "An object declared
> as type char is large enough to store any member of the basic
> execution character set." (6.2.5) And: "The representation of each
> member of the [...] execution basic character [set] shall fit in a
> byte." (5.2.1) So char would have to be at least 8 bits wide, but
> could be wider.
Actually, those statements only say that the representation of a
character must fit in both a char and a byte. It doesn't specify
the relationship between a char and a byte. Though I'm sure
somewhere it's defined that a char must be at least a byte.
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