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From: lars@nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff)
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 06:37:55 +0000
Subject: [TUHS] origins of void* -- Apology!
In-Reply-To: <20171108212550.56005156E7D7@mail.bitblocks.com> (Bakul Shah's
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Bakul Shah wrote:
> I agree that `char' shouldn't do double duty as the smallest
> addressable unit and I was suggesing uint8_t does that job.

There are still machines around where 8-bit bytes isn't a natural fit.