Hi Bob.

16-Nov-03 19:21:48, Bob Stout wrote to All


 BS> From: Bob Stout 

 BS> On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Jerry Coffin wrote:


 BS> Guilty as charged. In my own defense, though, I've never heard of
 BS> 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

 >> There is one proviso to that: though never says so explicitly, for
 >> I/O to work correctly (specifically for EOF to be unique from any
 >> input that could have been read from the file) the range of int has
 >> to be greater than (not equal to) the range for char.  IOW, if
 >> there are 64 bits in the value representation of a char, then there
 >> had better be at least 65 bits in an int, or the I/O model no
 >> longer works.

 BS> Excellent point - but, as you point out, not explicitly stated nor
 BS> immediately obvious

nor does it reflect my experience with systems where stdlib has char
signed.

 -=> Bye <=-

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