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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!world!ksr!jfw
  2. From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: Most difficult part of learning C?
  5. Message-ID: <15232@ksr.com>
  6. Date: 27 Aug 92 13:27:27 EDT
  7. References: <1992Aug25.180919.10370@samba.oit.unc.edu> <behrenss.714775792@hphalle6> <chuckb.714781695@milton> <17g9mlINNsu1@early-bird.think.com> <1992Aug27.005328.3075@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>
  8. Sender: news@ksr.com
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  11. arensb@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Andrew Arensburger - RMS) writes:
  12. >    Now, if the ANSI committee had defined a type 'byte' to be of
  13. >the smallest size that can be represented on the host architecture,
  14. >it would have made sense.
  15.  
  16. You'd have confused a lot of people who discovered that sizeof(char) was now
  17. fractional.
  18.  
  19. (A word-oriented architecture can still have special byte pointers, or the
  20. compiler can even invent them itself if it must).
  21.