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In article <49vqon$mvs@engnews2.eng.sun.com>,
Steve Clamage <clamage@Eng> wrote:
>Yes, of course. This was true in C as well. The requirements are that
>	sizeof(char) <= sizeof(short) <= sizeof(int) <= sizeof(long)
>They are allowed to be all the same size, for example, and you can look
>in K&R1 to find examples. This situation -- no predetermined size for
>any built-in type -- has been true since the beginning of C, and is
>still true in C++.

I thought I read somewhere that C++ guarantees a "char" to be 8 bits (or
was that "one byte"?).

                                        Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@bnr.ca )

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