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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
Subject: Re: Decoding an octet stream
Date: 1999/12/02
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* Geoff Bull wrote:
>Florian Weimer wrote:
>> Perhaps I may ask again: Is it reasonable to assume that
>> Storage_Element'Size equals 8 (although the standard doesn't
>> require this, of course)?  
>
>I would think this is the equivalent of assuming that a 
>C char is 8 bits. Not strictly true, but a perfectly
>reasonable thing to do, so long as you are aware of the
>consequences.

A DSP in the next labor has Storage_Element'Size = 32.
sizeof(char) is required by the C standard to be equal to one every time.
So we have (for this compiler) sizeof(char) == sizeof(short) == sizeof(int)
== sizeof(long) == 1.