This is convention, so on almost-- and most any computer you overuse, if you're writing code that uses a char, you're gonna be handed 8 bits or 1 byte to store that particular char.

这是约定，对于大多数-,电脑，当你写代码要用到一个char型数据时,必须先预留8比特或1字节,的空间来存储这个char型数据。

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And I don't quite remember from reading or from class how big these things are, well, it turns out -- and this is sometimes useful, later on more likely than now -- but C has a size of operator that takes an argument in parenthesis and it will tell you how much space is used to store that particular data type.

我不太记得类中的这些类型,是多大的，嗯，结果是--这个在以后比现在，可能是更有用的--不过C语言中有个sizeof的操作符,其中括号里有一个参数,它会告诉我们，要存储一个类型的数据,需要占用多大空间。

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