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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The integral type 'byte' (was Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:16:54 -0700
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
[...]
> Thus pretty much any programmer in the last 50 years sees "byte" as
> synonymous with 8-bit octet, including C programmers, and for the last
> 30 years or so it has been the ISO standard definition of the
> term.

What ISO standard definition are you referring to?  The ISO C standard
certainly doesn't define a "byte" to be 8 bits.  I'd be surprised if any
other ISO standard did so.

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