From: Jerry Coffin 

At 12:12 AM 1/21/2004, you wrote:
>Hi Jerry! :-)
>
>  JC> There are compilers, especially on DSPs, where char is 16 bits.  The
>  JC> reason is pretty simple: some DSPs aren't really built to deal with
>  JC> anything smaller than that.
>I stand corrected, at least on the "bigger than 8 bits" count. ;)

It can't be fewer than 8 bits -- the standard requires that the range of
signed char being at least -127 to +127, and unsigned char at least 0 to
255 (and plain char match one of the other two).  You can't do that in
fewer than 8 bits.
         Later,
         Jerry.

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