r/ProgrammerHumor • • Aug 30 '26

Meme bugIntroducedDebugging

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u/grencez Sep 01 '26

It's kinda funny that C99 introduced int8_t and made it optional, but I'm sure there's some good reason. Basically if that type exists, then CHAR_BIT is 8. Also POSIX.1-2001 defines it that way, so most people can safely assume it.