Re: Lua 5.2 Reference Manual

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 05/09/2011 11.56, liam mail wrote:
> On 5 September 2011 10:43, Lorenzo Donati<lorenzodonatibz@interfree.it>  wrote:
> > this assumption may prove wrong, since it seems that the standard doesn't
> > guarantee that a byte or a char can hold at least 8-bit,
>
> C99 5.2.4.2.1
> "Their implementation-defined values shall be equal or greater in
> magnitude (absolute value) to those shown, with the same sign."
>
> CHAR_BIT 8
>
> Liam

Thank you very much for the clarification!

It's unfortunate that C standards are not freely available as other 
computer-related standards. I never understood why ISO make people pay 
for such documents. Are they actually making real money out of them? IMO 
it only hampers information diffusion on a standard which should be "open".


-- Lorenzo