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Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness



I demand that Colin Walters may or may not have written...

[snip]
> No, the C standard guarantees that a char is exactly a single byte; i.e.
> sizeof(char) == 1.

Yes, but who's to say that a byte is 8 bits wide? :-)

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