On 14/05/16 18:13 +0200, François Dumont wrote:
sizeof() returns number of char elements in the given type ? I thought it was the number of bytes and that a byte was always 8 bits. But I know that you know your stuff so fixed in the new patch.
A char is a byte, by definition, so sizeof returns the number of bytes, which is also the number of chars. But a byte can have more than 8 bits. The number of bits is given by the standard macro CHAR_BITS, and the non-standard (but always defined by GCC) macro __CHAR_BITS__.
