[CrackMonkey] Another nail in the Pine coffin

[Paul J Collins]

>>>>> "Bad" == Bad  <mr.bad at pigdog.org> writes:

>>>>> "PJC" == Paul J Collins <sneakums at eircom.net> writes:
    PJC> char can be an 8-bit type.  It depends on your
    PJC> implementation.

As opposed to seven-bit.

    Bad> char can be a 64-bit type, d00d. Of course it depends on your
    Bad> implementation!

char is defined as the smallest addressable quantity on the machine in
question.  This is rarely not a byte.  Its signedness is not defined.
That is why there are three char types.

    Bad> However, I think that's wrong. char should only be meaningful
    Bad> for ASCII code. or EBCDIC. That's OK, too.

/me shrugs.  It's just a number.

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