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Re: Endian swapping with C code on ARM

Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com> writes:

> On Jul 14, 2004, at 5:27 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
>> Falk Hueffner <hueffner@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
>>
>>> In the documentation I explicitely point out that "byte" always means
>>> exactly 8 bit in this context.
>>
>> Maybe the term should be changed to "octet" to make it clearer.
>
> byte is perfectly clear.  It always means 8 bits.

For normal people, yes, but not for the C standard committee.

-- 
	Falk
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