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> To my knowledge the last great bastion of these properties being violated is some DSPs (Digital Signal Processors), because they really don't like 8-bit bytes.

Now, there's definitely a tangent to be explored there. Anyone know more about this?



The C spec has a concept called CHAR_BIT that specifies how many bits are in a byte. Looking for systems where it’s not 8 will give examples. I always link to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32091992/is-char-bit-eve... which has a TI DSP as the first answer, for example.




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