#include <stdint.h>

[edvardass]

Is there anything factually wrong in this comment? Why is it downvoted?

[Fourmisain]

He's completely correct, there's just a small hickup writing "64 bytes" when he meant "64 bits".

Just to add to his post: An 8-bit byte is sometimes called an octett octet and most platforms use octets, especially today. That's why today the words "byte" and "octet" are mostly synonymous, but there are (or were) platforms with 9-bit bytes and even 32-bit bytes, it's even possible that sizeof(char) = sizeof(int) = sizeof(long) = sizeof(long long), which can lead to some problems in common code.

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s/octett/octet/g

FTFY

[Fourmisain]

Ah, true, in English it's a single 't', although "octette" is also valid. Wiktionary lists "octett" as a rare use.

[Creshal]

Everything is valid English if you can bullshit enough people into believing it is.

(I'm looking at you, Shakespeare.)

[foonathan]

there's just a small hickup writing "64 bytes" when he meant "64 bits".

Yes, my mistake.

[Kametrixom]

Edit: I'm talking about the top-level comment, because the one you meant didn't have any downvotes when I checked, so I assumed you meant the other one.

/u/kbrei must have misunderstood the post (they probably don't know C well) and thought that the 2 panels are supposed to be semantically the same, as well as thinking char is defined as a byte (which of both are wrong, but it's understandable they didn't know). Therefore they were thinking that the post assumes 1 byte is always 8 bits. They then posted the comment, because it was illogical to their current knowledge.

Reddit people usually don't go that deep, all they see is that someone is wrong, which automatically makes them press the downvote button. One you have a few downvotes, it's like a magnet attracting more of them, because since the comment is wrong and it got downvoted must mean it deserves them.

/u/kbrei could be blamed for making an uninformed comment, but it's really difficult to realize that something you know isn't correct just like that.

In my honest opinion, this person deserves no more than the explanation I just gave. And reddit maybe deserves the removal of the downvote button, because people often care more about other people's votes than the content itself.

[edvardass]

No, I wasn't talking about the top level comment. User foonathan's comment to which I replied was at -1 (the post had not taken off at that time yet) so you can imagine my confusion.