"nsgi_2004" <no****@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<X1xvc.42929$mm1.41139@fed1read06>...
I have a C book that says the sizeof a char is one byte. Is this true for
C++?
Yes, because C++ redefines byte to mean the size of a char. It's not
always the 8-bit thingy you might expect. This is shared between C
and C++, It's relevant e.g. for some DSP chips inside cellphones
that have 32 bits per byte. Now, those are programmed in C not C++,
but C++ felt no need to differ from C here. If anyone writes a
C++ compiler for such things, they can still use the same 32-bit
char.
Regards,
Michiel Salters