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> > Like 'char' is always 1 byte.
> 
> That's not true, either.  There are compilers (mostly for embedded
> systems) where `char' is 32-bit wide.
> 

I thought the ANSI standard said that 'char' must be one byte wide.  Am
I wrong, or are those compilers non-standard?

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