Martin Norbäck <d95mback@dtek.chalmers.se> writes: > However, I've yet to see an architecture where a c char is not 8 bits, > and I doubt that there ever will be. I'm porting a C compiler to a machine where char is 9 bits (and int is 36 bits). There was a time when a 36-bit word size was the norm, not an exception.