From: Jonathan Guthrie 

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:14:28AM +0000,
Jasen.Betts!3.640.1042.0{at}filegate.net wrote:

> 16-Nov-03 19:21:48, Bob Stout wrote to All
>> a compiler where char wasn't 8 bits.

> GCC/Sparc used/uses 32 bits I think as AIUI that's the smallest addressible
> amount of memory on that architecture

That is not correct.  SPARC is a byte-addressible machine.

However, as the guy in my office who used to write compilers for TI points
out, many DSP's, including those from TI, have 32 or 64 bit characters.
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