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"brian (b.c.) white" <bcwhite@bnr.ca> wrote:

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

One byte.  The number of bits in a char can be found in limits.h as
CHAR_BIT. (Actually, the current name is something like climitsh instead
of limits.h)
    Later,
    Jerry.

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