What about Rust?
What is the difference between unsigned char and byte data types?
Jason Evans
Jace Garcia
Let's see what Common Lisp has to say about it.
Charles Thompson
Just to add on some trivia. LISP Machines didn't actually support a byte datatype. Everything was done in words (eg. 36 bits on the 3600 or 40 bits on the Ivory). Thing like strings were done like arrays and multiple characters were packed into a single word.
Jacob James
What? Would you prefer the nonstandard u8 typedef?
Zachary Wright
The absolute state of this 'technology' board.
Benjamin Moore
type Byte is mod 8;A: Byte := 7;beginA: A+1;Put_Line(A'Image);end;
= 0
Gavin Flores
One is burned the other bites.
Jayden Stewart
nowadays practically speaking there's no difference, but on some exotic platform char might be more than one byte. Sizes of types in c/c++ like char short and int are platform specific. If you want guaranteed size you have to use uintx_t (where x is the number of bits) but these types might not be implemented on all platforms.
In other words, other than some piece of trivia, a char is a byte today.
Ryan Martin
no. in C char is one byte on all platforms. It isn't platform defined.
Gabriel Robinson
POSIX requires it to be eight bits. The C standard doesn't seem to put any requirements on it besides being an integer capable of containing the basic character set.