16 Oct
2011
16 Oct
'11
11:39 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Wasn't it presumptuous of K&R to assume that
the smallest native
datum was a char? At the time the spec was being written, there did
exist bit-addressable machines, so directly-addressed bit arrays were
certainly possible on some hardware.
I think that was decision of the standards committee; I don't recall K&R
addressing that issue (no pun intended).