Integer conversions too pedantic in 64-bit

[Olivier Pisano]

Le 17/02/2011 13:28, Don a écrit :
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> Yes, I know. It's true but I think rather useless.
> We need a name for an 8 bit quantity, and a 16 bit quantity, and higher
> powers of two. 'byte' is an established name for the first one, even
> though historically there were 9-bit bytes. IMHO 'word' wasn't such a
> bad name for the second one, even though its etomology comes from the
> machine word size of some specific early processors. But the equally
> arbitrary name 'short' has become widely accepted.

8 bits: octet -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octet_%28computing%29