Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rochester!rutgers!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!milgr%brandeis.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET From: milgr%brandeis.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET (Marc Milgram) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Size of \"Byte\" Message-ID: <8488@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 08:04:54 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-adm.8488 Posted: Mon Jul 27 08:04:54 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jul-87 01:52:14 EDT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 11 If anyone took a look in K&R, the size of byte (and all other data types) is system dependent. K&R gave a list of these sizes as implemented on four machines. On one of them a byte is 9 bits. Perhaps there s which would return the number of bits in its argument. -Marc Milgram -milgr@brandeis.csnet -milgr%brandeis@csnet-relay be a built in constant "bits_in_byte", or an equivalent of sizeof for