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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: [QT creator on "nix"] - getting a strict 8 bit (1 byte) array with no padding
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 11:30:11 -0800
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
[...]
> uint8_t is always 8 bits.  No more, no less.
[...]

Yes.  Expanding on that, uint8_t is always 8 bits *if it exists*.

(And in the real world, it almost always exists.  You're far more
likely to encounter a very old implementation that doesn't support
<stdint.h> or <cstdint> than to encounter one that does have those
headers but has CHAR_BIT>8.)

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for Philips Healthcare
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */