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Article #1848Re: Coding Standards are ignorant
From: Thad Smith
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 20:42
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 20:42
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In article <1996Mar408.48.01.11162@koobera.math.uic.edu>, djb@koobera.math.uic.edu (D. J. Bernstein) wrote: >Peter Seebach <seebs@solutions.solon.com> wrote: >``[ispunct()] has no excuse to assume that char is 8 bits.'' (Of course >it has an excuse. Whether it's a _good_ excuse is a side issue.) Whether an assumption of 8 bits is appropriate depends on the context. For the portable C programmer, no. The implementor, however, gets to specify the size of char, presumably to match the target hardware. Thad
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!teal.csn.net!not-for-mail From: thads@csn.net (Thad Smith) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.std.c Subject: Re: Coding Standards are ignorant Date: 4 Mar 1996 13:42:32 -0700 Organization: T3 Systems Message-ID: <LuxOxQ9yttWa084yn@csn.net> References: <4gum82$14v4@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <4hdhgm$6vq@solutions.solon.com> <1996Mar403.23.06.8316@koobera.math.uic.edu> <4he37i$a0u@solutions.solon.com> <1996Mar408.48.01.11162@koobera.math.uic.edu> Reply-To: ThadSmith@acm.org NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.117.27.22