> However, it is entirely implementation defined what that 1 refers to. Not entirely, there is a vague description of what a byte should be able to represent.

> However, it is entirely implementation defined what that 1 refers to. Not entirely, there is a vague description of what a byte should be able to represent. The C and C++ programming languages define byte as an "addressable unit of data storage large enough to hold any member of the basic character set of the execution environment" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte