Re: What is a byte?

["Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 1:40:56 PM UTC-5, Simon Wright wrote:
> "Dan'l Miller" writes:
> > ...  (No specification of any
> > modern interoperable protocol uses the 2^8 and higher bits in a byte
> > if they exist on some arcade hardware.)
> 
> I don't think this is right (not in terms of how the ABI expects a char
> to be passed to a function, but in terms of what Victor ought to do).
> 
> If the C function takes a char, you should specify
> Interfaces.C.char. It's up to the compiler to decide whether that gets
> passed in 8 bits, 32 bits, or come to that 9/36 bits on hardware that no
> one is remotely likely to encounter (even in an arcade).

That dang spell check has become my worst enema:  arcane, not arcade.