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		Kamq on July 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Development of the C Language (1993) C doesn't really know about bytes. It has chars, but I believe there are some constraints on char, specifically, they have to be big enough to hold the ASCII charset. (I'm pulling real deep here, someone correct me if I'm wrong)

nitrix on July 10, 2023 [–]

C11 3.6p1 byte "addressable unit of data storage large enough to hold any member of the basic character set of the execution environment"

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