Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

[Grant Edwards]

On 2017-10-13, Stefan Ram <ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> writes:  There is no such
>>thing as a "byte" in C.
>
>       »3.6
>
>       1 byte
>
>       addressable unit of data storage large enough to hold
>       any member of the basic character set of the execution
>       environment«
>
>     ISO C standard

Ah, I had forgotten about that paragraph.  Now that I see the phrase
"large enough to hold any member of the basic character set of the
execution environment", I'm pretty sure I knew that at some point in
the past.

That means that in the context of the ISO C standard, on that
architecture, 1 byte is 32 bits.

--
Grant