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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: ada vs. cpp
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:46:09 +0200
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lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke) writes:

> :3 When applied to an operand that has type char, unsigned char, or signed
> :  char (...) the result is 1. When applied to an operant that hast array
> :  type, the result is the total number of bytes in the array. ...
>
> Consequence: No compiler is a conforming one when a char is not a byte?!

Yes, of course.  Unfortunately, this way, a low-level concept (storage
unit) and a high-level one (character set) are strongly linked, which
is a rather bad idea.

> Ah I see: C requires (by a footnote) that Storage_Units are similar
> to a char.

I don't think footnotes are normative.  There has to be a way to
derive this from the main text.