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Re: Reviewing http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo



On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 00:15 -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> I looked at the page: this seems like an appropriate moment to mention
> something that should be a lot more widely known than it is:
> 
>    sizeof(char) == 1
>    sizeof(signed char) == 1
>    sizeof(unsigned char) == 1
> 
> Those three equalities are not part of any ABI.  They are written into
> the C standard, in the definition of the sizeof() operator.  They will
> never be false.

I just removed them for this reason.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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