Yet another ALIGN idea.

Doug Gwyn gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Tue Jul 1 06:30:55 AEST 1986


In article <1986Jun29.15:39:38.4762 at utcs.uucp> flaps at utcs.uucp (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>Which reminds me, is sizeof(char) always = 1 yet?  I mean, is it guaranteed?

sizeof(char) is indeed supposed to be 1 as things now stand.
However, this may need to be reconsidered.  The meaning of
"char" is currently overloaded, which doesn't much matter
until one gets into multi-byte character representations.
I'm hoping to work up a complete discussion and a number
of specific proposals in a paper for X3J11 as soon as I can
find the time.



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