"Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > Thu, 08 Aug 2002 19:28:18 +1000 (EST), Manuel M T Chakravarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >pisze: > > > ANSI C guarantees that char is 1 byte (more precisely that > > "sizeof (char)" == 1). > > It says that sizeof (char) == 1 but doesn't say that it means 8 bits. > sizeof is measured in chars, whatever it is. But limits for values > of char imply that it has at least 8 bits. > > Perhaps we can assume some widely true facts even if ANSI C doesn't > guarantee that if it makes life easier. For example that a C type > corresponding to Int32 exists at all, and that different pointer > types have the same representation - we already rely on that, don't we?
Yes. And as Ketil pointed out Worse Is Better. Manuel _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
