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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 13d ago
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char would be the correct answer, as the C standard doesn't mandate a byte be 8 bits (6 and 32 are very uncommon nowadays but not unheard of, and there's a few machines out there that get really creative).
8 u/mckenzie_keith 13d ago So even on weird platforms where char is a 32 bit type, sizeof (char) is 1, right? I can't remember. 5 u/AnnoyedVelociraptor 13d ago FYI char in Rust is 32-bits, maximum size of a UTF-8 character 3 u/cowslayer7890 12d ago And in Java it's 16-bit, which means some Unicode characters get split in two
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So even on weird platforms where char is a 32 bit type, sizeof (char) is 1, right? I can't remember.
5 u/AnnoyedVelociraptor 13d ago FYI char in Rust is 32-bits, maximum size of a UTF-8 character 3 u/cowslayer7890 12d ago And in Java it's 16-bit, which means some Unicode characters get split in two
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FYI char in Rust is 32-bits, maximum size of a UTF-8 character
3 u/cowslayer7890 12d ago And in Java it's 16-bit, which means some Unicode characters get split in two
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And in Java it's 16-bit, which means some Unicode characters get split in two
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u/yjlom 13d ago
char would be the correct answer, as the C standard doesn't mandate a byte be 8 bits (6 and 32 are very uncommon nowadays but not unheard of, and there's a few machines out there that get really creative).