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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:54:29 +0200
From: Jean-Marc Bourguet <jbourguet@free.fr>
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Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> In article <3BCBF40A.BBDD4FE6@free.fr>, Jean-Marc Bourguet says...
> >This is not a standard conforming implementation which requires:
> >
> >sizeof(char) = 1
> 
> Which standard are you talking about? I'm pretty sure there is no such
> requirement for K&R C compilers.

ISO-IEC 14882 (Programming languages -- C++) 5.3.3/1 says 

... sizeof(char), sizeof(signed char) and sizeof(unsigned char) are 1
...

and I'm quite sure this is something inherited from C.

Yours,

-- Jean-Marc