>> I don't know what's done by implementations where int and char are
>> the same size.  seebs? :)
> In the 8-bit int case,

...you aren't using C, as seebs pointed out.

I was actually thinking of an implementation I heard spoken of (I think
it was for a DSP or some such CPU) that made char as wide as int, which
was the size of the machine's registers, because addressing individual
bytes was either impossible or prohibitively difficult.

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