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From:         Rahul Dhesi <dhesi at bsu-cs.uucp>
Subject:      Re: sizeof(char)
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To:           Vic Kapella <SXJVK at ALASKA>

In article <2328 at bsu-cs.UUCP> I wrote:
>And nowhere do I find
>K&R saying that byte == char == 1 unit is simply a compiler peculiarity
>and not a design assumption in the language.

Looking again, more carefully this time, I find this on page 188:

     A byte is undefined by the language except in terms of the value
     of sizeof.

And yet, looking at the extensive discussion of a function alloc() to
allocate memory and a portable implementation of it, we find that char
and byte are used synonymously in the examples given.  See pages 96-98
and then 173-177.
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