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"Mark Wills" <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> For the record: A char is the same as a byte.

Is that apparently open-ended claim _just_ for Forth because this is c.l.f.?

Because, if the open-ended claim is for other languages too, like C, then
you're just wrong.  In C, a byte must be the same size as or larger than a
char.  There is a minimum size the char must be in bits too.  C's strings
are terminated by a nul (all bits cleared) byte.  I.e., on a 16-bit word
addressable machine, the terminating sting nul could be 16-bits, while the
characters could be 8-bits or 9-bits etc.  In such a situation, C ignores
those upper bits for a char, but not for the nul.  I.e., C's "nul character"
string terminator is not a character at all, but a C byte.  C doesn't define
a byte as 8-bits per ASCII or EBCDIC.


Rod Pemberton

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Buffer access with bounds checking... Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-31 06:51 -0700
  Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-08-31 11:04 -0500
  Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-31 09:20 -0700
    Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-31 12:57 -0700
      Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnot.cmm> - 2012-08-31 18:46 -0400
        Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-09-01 04:05 -0500
          Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnot.cmm> - 2012-09-01 13:45 -0400
            Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-09-02 04:19 -0500
              Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnot.cmm> - 2012-09-02 16:15 -0400
                Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-09-04 12:02 -0500
  Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-08-31 14:15 -0400
    Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-31 12:56 -0700
    Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-31 13:32 -0700
      Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-08-31 17:45 -0400
        Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-31 15:07 -0700
          Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2012-09-01 00:49 -0700
            Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-01 14:06 -0700
              Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-09-02 04:21 -0500
              Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-09-02 10:27 +0000
          Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-09-01 06:59 -0400
  Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2012-08-31 14:21 -0700
  Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnot.cmm> - 2012-08-31 18:48 -0400
  Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-09-01 01:41 +0200
    Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-09-01 02:37 +0200
    Re: Buffer access with bounds checking... mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2012-09-01 11:11 +0200

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