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Proposing that C++ acknowledge that there are exactly 8 bits in a byte.
I’d love feedback, especially from embedded / DSP folks who think this is a terrible idea.
https://isocpp.org/files/papers/P3477R0.html
@jfbastien As someone who's been doing C++ embedded development for quite a few years, I can't remember the last time I saw a non 8 bit byte.
Certainly not in the last decade.
Very much in favor of mandating CHAR_BIT == 8.
@jfbastien (for that matter I would also like to formalize that integers are twos complement and signed overflow wraps, which is how literally every mainstream ISA works anyway. It should not be UB)
@jfbastien Or, worst case, make it implementation defined and provide a standard mechanism to determine the actual behavior (saturate / wrap / trap) on overflow.