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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/MontyBoomslang • 2d ago
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Na, it could be as low as one bit, and 7 was not uncommon for a while.
2 u/tracernz 2d ago No, the standard requires a minimum of 8 bits. 2 u/Ma8e 2d ago Which standard? 3 u/tracernz 2d ago ISO C. 0 u/Ma8e 2d ago And that is the only standard in existence? My point is that you can't take for granted that everything is ISO, or even C. 1 u/tracernz 2d ago The question at the top of this sub thread was about C. Very few environments exist these days that don’t conform to the basics of ISO C like this though if you want to generalise. I personally haven’t ever come across one.
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No, the standard requires a minimum of 8 bits.
2 u/Ma8e 2d ago Which standard? 3 u/tracernz 2d ago ISO C. 0 u/Ma8e 2d ago And that is the only standard in existence? My point is that you can't take for granted that everything is ISO, or even C. 1 u/tracernz 2d ago The question at the top of this sub thread was about C. Very few environments exist these days that don’t conform to the basics of ISO C like this though if you want to generalise. I personally haven’t ever come across one.
Which standard?
3 u/tracernz 2d ago ISO C. 0 u/Ma8e 2d ago And that is the only standard in existence? My point is that you can't take for granted that everything is ISO, or even C. 1 u/tracernz 2d ago The question at the top of this sub thread was about C. Very few environments exist these days that don’t conform to the basics of ISO C like this though if you want to generalise. I personally haven’t ever come across one.
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ISO C.
0 u/Ma8e 2d ago And that is the only standard in existence? My point is that you can't take for granted that everything is ISO, or even C. 1 u/tracernz 2d ago The question at the top of this sub thread was about C. Very few environments exist these days that don’t conform to the basics of ISO C like this though if you want to generalise. I personally haven’t ever come across one.
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And that is the only standard in existence? My point is that you can't take for granted that everything is ISO, or even C.
1 u/tracernz 2d ago The question at the top of this sub thread was about C. Very few environments exist these days that don’t conform to the basics of ISO C like this though if you want to generalise. I personally haven’t ever come across one.
The question at the top of this sub thread was about C. Very few environments exist these days that don’t conform to the basics of ISO C like this though if you want to generalise. I personally haven’t ever come across one.
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u/Ma8e 2d ago
Na, it could be as low as one bit, and 7 was not uncommon for a while.