Re: [boost] [rfc] I/O Library Design

From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-24 20:31:47

Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:

> It seems like it would introduce significant complications to try to
> support any architecture with a non-octet byte (i.e. an architecture
> that does not have an 8-bit type).  Perhaps it is best for this library
> to just completely ignore such architectures, since they are extremely
> rare anyway.

Current architectures without 8-bit bytes don't do any kind of file I/O 
or similar, AFAIK.