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From: Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: C23 thoughts and opinions
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 01:03:02 +0100
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On 28/05/2024 21:54, Keith Thompson wrote:
> Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes
> 
> And of course CHAR_BIT is the byte size on the target (relevant for
> cross-compilers).  In the odd case where CHAR_BIT is different on the
> host and target systems, the embedded file needs to be one that could be
> used on the target (if the target supports files).
> 
> It's probably reasonable for an implementation to support *only*
> CHAR_BIT as the embed element width, and not to provide a mechanism to
> change it.
> 
If you pass my JPEG loader, for example, a binary created by 
zero-padding the most significant bits in a plarform where CHAR_BIT is 
not 8, it should work as intended. Unfortunately I don't have such a 
machine to actually test this.

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