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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: ada vs. cpp
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Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> The revision of POSIX.1 will require 8 bit bytes, I think, but of
> course, there's no such requirement in the C language (except that the
> size must be greater than 7 bits).

Interesting. So there will be no implementations of POSIX.1 on 16 bit
addressable machines? I guess that's not a big loss.

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-- Stephe