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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: technology discussion =?utf-8?Q?=E2=86=92?= does the world need
 a "new" C ?
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2024 18:39:50 -0700
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bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]
> There's no 'byte' type. There's an odd selection of *5* char, short,
> int, long and long long types which cover the *4* 8/16/32/64 bit
> sizes.

You're right, there's no type named "byte".  Nobody said there was.
You wrote that "C didn't define a 'byte' at all.".  You were wrong.
C defines the word "byte" and uses it extensively.

[...]

> My point was that this evolution was apparent at least 40 years ago.

And there are still C implementations with CHAR_BIT > 8, mostly for
DSPs.  Please feel free to ignore them, but don't ask everyone else to
pretend they don't exist.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */