The fact that every single compiler typedefs "uint8_t" and "unsigned char" and yet that isn't guaranteed by the standard is the kind of thing that just makes you want to cry.
I'm actually genuinely curious about this: people talk about the possibility of existence, but I haven't seen anybody point to an actual compiler that implements uint8_t as an extended numeric type rather than being an equivalent typedef to "unsigned char". Is there a compiler that really does this?
