Re: Defect in XCU ed

["Thomas E. Dickey" <yyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 yyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>       Defect report from : Andrew Josey , The Open Group
>
> (Please direct followup comments direct to yyyyyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>
> @ page 343 line 13238 section ed objection {nine-bit-bytes}
>
> Problem:
>
> Edition of Specification (Year): 2003
>
> Defect code :  1. Error
>
> Here and elsewhere in XCU we come across statements
> of the form : "If the size of a byte on the system is greater than
> nine bits, the ... is implementation-defined".
>
> This appears to be for systems outside of the standard, which
> requires support for 8 bit bytes

Which standard?  ISO C specifies that a byte must contain at least 8 bits,
but doesn't appear to set a maximum.

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