Bit Addressable Architectures

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1040 at mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse at mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes:
-In article <7578 at brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
-> There's a lot of code like that, no question.  It would continue to
-> work if sizeof(char) were allowed to be other than 1,
-How could it?

Naturally, if you truncate the explanation by stopping at the "," then
you missed it.  Why do people narrow their focus to such small contexts?