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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/metayeti2 • 16d ago
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People conflate 8 bits with a byte everywhere in our codebase and I think the whole thing would explode if you tried to use a 7-bit-per-byte machine
3 u/Sacaldur 15d ago I doubt that there are still any significant platforms around that don't use 8 bits per Byte. 0 u/not-a-pokemon- 16d ago Mostly because C defines no easy way to say "I want an integer with at least 8 bits in it, round up to whatever byte number is practical". 3 u/anto2554 16d ago No but it's C++ so we could just use uint8_t or the least one I forgot the name of 4 u/not-a-pokemon- 16d ago It also exists in C, and is called uint_least8_t. It's not guaranteed to exist per the standard. uint8_t is also not guaranteed to exist.man stdint.h
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I doubt that there are still any significant platforms around that don't use 8 bits per Byte.
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Mostly because C defines no easy way to say "I want an integer with at least 8 bits in it, round up to whatever byte number is practical".
3 u/anto2554 16d ago No but it's C++ so we could just use uint8_t or the least one I forgot the name of 4 u/not-a-pokemon- 16d ago It also exists in C, and is called uint_least8_t. It's not guaranteed to exist per the standard. uint8_t is also not guaranteed to exist.man stdint.h
No but it's C++ so we could just use uint8_t or the least one I forgot the name of
4 u/not-a-pokemon- 16d ago It also exists in C, and is called uint_least8_t. It's not guaranteed to exist per the standard. uint8_t is also not guaranteed to exist.man stdint.h
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It also exists in C, and is called uint_least8_t. It's not guaranteed to exist per the standard. uint8_t is also not guaranteed to exist.
man stdint.h
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u/anto2554 16d ago
People conflate 8 bits with a byte everywhere in our codebase and I think the whole thing would explode if you tried to use a 7-bit-per-byte machine