about BYTE datatype

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  1. harish13

    harish13 New Member

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    anybody plese explain me about byte datatype in C.
    thank you in advance
     
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    A unit of memory or data equal to the amount used to represent one character; on modern architectures this is usually 8 bits.
     
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    what i actually want is in VB there is a datatype called byte in C is there such type of datatype.i think we can implement byte using bitfield concept
     
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    char is equal to byte in C.
     

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