C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte

(www.open-std.org)

182 points Twirrim | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 22:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source

1. DowsingSpoon ◴[18 Oct 24 00:18 UTC] No.41875162[source]▶

As a person who designed and built a hobby CPU with a sixteen-bit byte, I’m not sure how I feel about this proposal.