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robin.vowels@gmail.com wrote:
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> A byte is a fixed-length field of 8 bits.
...except when it isn't. For example, some embedded systems ("freestanding
implementations") use 32-bit bytes. At least one of the Analog SHARC chips
uses 32-bit bytes.
IEC 80000-13 defines the byte to be 8 bits, but there are other
international standards that use more flexible definitions (e.g. ISO/IEC
9899, which requires only that a byte must be *at least* 8 bits).
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Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
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64-bit bytes fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-01-05 01:38 -0800
Re: 64-bit bytes robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2015-01-08 00:46 -0800
Re: 64-bit bytes fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-01-08 00:53 -0800
Re: 64-bit bytes robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2015-01-11 15:46 -0800
Re: 64-bit bytes Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2015-01-12 00:32 +0000
Re: 64-bit bytes BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-01-12 01:35 +0000
Re: 64-bit bytes Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2015-01-12 09:07 +0000
Re: 64-bit bytes BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-01-12 11:43 +0000
Re: 64-bit bytes Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2015-01-12 11:59 +0000
Re: 64-bit bytes BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-01-12 12:21 +0000
Re: 64-bit bytes Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2015-01-12 12:36 +0000
Re: 64-bit bytes Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-01-12 14:15 +0000
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Re: 64-bit bytes Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-01-13 00:51 +0000
Re: 64-bit bytes Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2015-01-12 13:18 +0000
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Re: 64-bit bytes Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2015-01-12 14:48 +0000
Re: 64-bit bytes BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-01-12 15:05 +0000
Re: 64-bit bytes Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-01-12 15:43 -0600
Re: 64-bit bytes Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-01-12 21:05 +0000
Re: 64-bit bytes Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2015-01-12 22:12 +0000
Re: 64-bit bytes "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2015-01-12 10:12 +0100
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Re: 64-bit bytes Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2015-01-12 09:19 +0000
Re: 64-bit bytes robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2015-01-12 06:22 -0800
Re: 64-bit bytes Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2015-01-12 14:51 +0000
Re: 64-bit bytes robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2015-01-12 15:46 -0800
Re: 64-bit bytes Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-01-13 01:16 +0000
Re: 64-bit bytes Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2015-01-13 01:53 +0000
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Re: 64-bit bytes Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2015-01-13 13:57 +0000
Re: 64-bit bytes "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2015-01-13 15:32 +0100
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Re: 64-bit bytes BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-01-13 23:49 +0000
Re: 64-bit bytes fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-01-13 23:57 -0800
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