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JF Bastien

Proposing that C++ acknowledge that there are exactly 8 bits in a byte.
I’d love feedback, especially from embedded / DSP folks who think this is a terrible idea.
isocpp.org/files/papers/P3477R

isocpp.orgP3477R0: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte
Dominik Grabiec

@jfbastien
I'm no longer in embedded but the only situation I can think of is when you have some crazy PIC microcontroller which has 12/14 bit instructions but is an otherwise 8 bit processor and uses a Harvard architecture.

Oct 16, 2024, 01:32 PM·Public·Mastodon for Android
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Michael Wyman

@dominikg @jfbastien I’ve worked on Unisys mainframes with 9-bit bytes.

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Michael Wyman

@jfbastien @dominikg got pretty used to reading octal at the time.

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