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C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mista...
You are mixing some things up. Yes the `sizeof(char)` is defined to always be 1 by the standard... but the
size of char
is not 1, it's defined by CHAR_BIT which can in principle vary from platform to platform.
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