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| From | cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' |
| Date | 2026-05-15 01:56 +0000 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
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| References | <10su8cn$am9i$1@dont-email.me> <86pl2yi0n3.fsf@linuxsc.com> <10u51uq$euq$1@reader1.panix.com> <10u5m4m$uo0d$3@kst.eternal-september.org> |
In article <10u5m4m$uo0d$3@kst.eternal-september.org>,
Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:
>cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:
>> In article <86pl2yi0n3.fsf@linuxsc.com>,
>> Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> wrote:
>[...]
>>>My main point is that "byte" and "octet" are talking about
>>>different kinds of things.
>>
>> Not really. It has always been understood to refer to the same
>> kind of thing that "byte" refers to.
>
>I agree, at least for the way I understand the terms. For me,
>"octet" and "byte" refer to the same kind of thing. The difference
>is that an "octet" is specifically 8 bits, and a "byte" is a
>fundamental unit of storage for a given system (commonly 8 bits).
>ISO/IEC 2382 happens to agree with me.
Indeed; Werner Buchholz created the term "byte" while working on
the IBM Stretch computer. This letter, from a 1977 issue of
BYTE magazine (bit on the nose, honestly) claims it was 21 years
old that year:
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1977-02/page/n145/mode/1up
The letter says that initially, byte sizes ranged from 1 to 6
bytes, but were extended to 8 bits in late 1956. The IBM 360
used the same byte and word sizes as the Stretch, but fixed
bytes at 8 bits.
>> The problem was that, at the time the term "octet" was coined,
>> the size of a byte (measured in bits) varied between different
>> computers, and sometimes on the same computer. When people
>> starting getting serious about making computers talk to one
>> another, this became an issue: hence octet to have standard
>> nomenclature.
>>
>>>A computer might have 64k bytes of
>>>RAM, but normally I wouldn't (and I think normally other people
>>>wouldn't) say that a computer has 64k octets of RAM.
>>
>> Some would, though it may sound a bit odd.
>
>Agreed. "64k bytes" is certainly more common, but "64k octets"
>means essentially the same thing while being more specific.
Yes. I understand that "octet" is preferred in French, enough
so that I read it was the, "French word for byte." Not knowing
French, I don't know if that's true.
However, this cute story from Bob Bemer suggests he disliked the
term "byte" and greaterly preferred "octet," pushing it when he
was directly of software at Bull, in France, in the mid-1960s:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170403130829/http://www.bobbemer.com/BYTE.HTM
>Also, the "k" suffix formally means 1000, but is often used to mean
>1024, which is why we have "Ki", "kibi" to denote a power of two
>explicitly.
Yes. K, M, G, etc, have always been the SI indicators for
powers of 10, not powers of 2. The "Ki", "Mi", "Gi", etc, forms
are (as I understand it) relatively new.
>[...]]
>
>> At this point, the term "byte" has been standardized by several
>> different bodies (IEC, ISO) to be synonymous with octet. The
>> continued use of "octet" by organizations like the IETF is
>> mostly a legacy curiosity.
>
>Has it?
Yes. IEC 80000-13 declares them to be synonyms.
>The ISO C and C++ standards certainly do not use "byte"
>to mean exactly 8 bits.
Indeed. I don't blame them. I suspect there are some DSP chips
or weird one-off processors with oddball byte sizes, even now.
>ISO/IEC 2382 says:
>
> byte
>
> string that consists of a number of bits, treated as a unit, and
> usually representing a character or a part of a character
>
> Note 1 to entry: The number of bits in a byte is fixed for a given
> data processing system.
>
> Note 2 to entry: The number of bits in a byte is usually 8.
>
>and
>
> octet
>
> 8-bit byte
>
> byte that consists of eight bits
>
><https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso-iec:2382:ed-1:v2:en>
>
>The latter implies that you can't have octets on a system with,
>say, 16-bit bytes, which doesn't match what I would have expected.
I suspect that ambiguity is unintentional.
>I would think it would be reasonable to say that a system with
>16-bit bytes has, say, 32k bytes or 64k octets of memory. But C
>doesn't use the word "octet", so this is at best marginally topical.
I wonder. For word oriented systems, it was common to describe
memory in terms of words (e.g., "the KL-10B processor with
extended addressing supports a maximum of 4 MW of memory...").
Similarly, even for byte-addressed machines, like the PDP-11,
memory capacities were often described in terms of 16-bit words
("this machine has 256 KW of memory", aka, 512 KB). [Of course,
these machines all predate common use if the "Ki" and "Mi"
units). Anyway, there is some precedent for using the machine
specific sizes in discussion, though I agree generally that
using octets makes sense in this context.
None of this has much to do with C, though, as you point out.
- Dan C.
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Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-14 16:51 -0700
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-05-13 14:57 +0000
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-13 12:35 -0700
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-05-13 20:18 +0000
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-05-13 21:46 +0000
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-13 15:45 -0700
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-05-14 10:53 -0700
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-14 16:59 -0700
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-05-15 15:45 +0000
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-05-15 20:17 +0200
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-15 12:47 -0700
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-15 13:15 -0700
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-05-15 22:16 +0000
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-05-15 21:52 +0100
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-05-14 04:48 +0200
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-05-14 12:08 +0200
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-05-14 05:15 -0700
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-05-15 03:51 +0200
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-05-13 15:12 +0000
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-05-14 04:56 +0200
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-05-14 15:19 +0000
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-05-14 09:55 -0700
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-05-14 17:32 +0000
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-05-13 16:33 -0700
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') Adam Sampson <ats@offog.org> - 2026-05-15 11:55 +0100
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-05-15 11:27 +0000
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-05-15 12:43 +0100
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-05-12 23:21 +0000
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-05-13 02:53 +0200
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-05-13 14:15 +0000
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-13 12:30 -0700
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-05-13 20:20 +0000
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-05-12 02:40 +0000
Re: Alternatives to C (was Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int') Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-05-12 15:11 +0100
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-05-10 15:18 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-05-11 01:17 +0100
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-09 15:47 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-05-09 23:33 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-05-10 00:45 +0100
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-09 17:33 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-05-10 03:46 +0300
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-09 17:54 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-05-10 15:46 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-05-10 13:21 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-05-10 02:26 +0100
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-09 19:01 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-05-10 12:06 +0100
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-10 16:11 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-05-11 00:58 +0100
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-10 17:31 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-05-11 01:44 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-05-11 03:09 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-05-11 12:15 +0100
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-05-11 15:19 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-05-11 19:06 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-05-11 21:29 +0100
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-05-11 18:32 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-05-12 03:44 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-05-11 20:53 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-05-12 14:27 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-05-13 11:37 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-05-13 20:28 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-05-11 02:18 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-10 19:48 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-05-11 12:39 +0100
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-11 11:12 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-05-11 19:30 +0100
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-11 11:34 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-05-11 19:42 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-05-10 21:21 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-05-11 07:43 +0200
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-05-11 13:57 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-05-11 09:46 +0200
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-05-10 07:09 +0200
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-05-10 07:00 +0200
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-05-10 12:44 +0100
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-10 16:45 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-05-11 07:58 +0200
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-05-11 13:55 +0100
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-05-10 14:34 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-05-10 15:42 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-05-10 13:23 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-05-10 21:28 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-05-11 12:53 +0100
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-05-11 13:54 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-05-11 16:48 +0100
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' tTh <tth@none.invalid> - 2026-05-11 18:26 +0200
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-11 11:20 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-05-11 19:38 +0100
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-05-11 18:50 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-11 11:58 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-05-11 18:44 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-05-11 19:28 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-05-11 19:41 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-11 14:16 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-05-11 23:05 +0100
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-11 16:13 -0700
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-05-11 21:03 +0100
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-05-11 20:08 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-05-11 15:25 +0000
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-05-11 17:03 +0100
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2026-05-09 21:25 -0400
Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-05-09 07:31 +0200
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