On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> On 2017-10-13, Stefan Ram <r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: >> >>> 1 byte >>> >>> addressable unit of data storage large enough to hold >>> any member of the basic character set of the execution >>> environment« >>> >>> ISO C standard > > > Hmmm. So an architecture with memory addressed in octets > and Unicode as the basic character set would have a > char of 8 bits and a byte of 32 bits? > > Not only does "byte" not always mean "8 bits", but > "char" isn't always short for "character"...
Certainly not. A byte would be 21 bits! Seriously though, I don't think anyone would design hardware like this. But I'd love to see what happens. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
