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char, unsigned char, and std::byte (C++17) are the only "byte types" according to the C++ Standard. "byte type" means a type that can be used to observe an object's value representation. We use uint8_t everywhere to see bytes, so we have to ensure that uint8_t is an alias to a "byte type". References: http://eel.is/c++draft/basic.types http://eel.is/c++draft/basic.memobj#def:byte http://eel.is/c++draft/expr.sizeof#1 http://eel.is/c++draft/cstdint#syn

char, unsigned char, and std::byte (C++17) are the only //byte types// according to the C++ Standard. //byte type// means a type that can be used to observe an object's value representation. We use `uint8_t` everywhere to see bytes, so we have to ensure that `uint8_t` is an alias to a `byte type`. References: http://eel.is/c++draft/basic.types http://eel.is/c++draft/basic.memobj#def:byte http://eel.is/c++draft/expr.sizeof#1 http://eel.is/c++draft/cstdint#syn

char, unsigned char, and std::byte (C++17) are the only "//byte types" // according to the C++ Standard. " //byte type"// means a type that can be used to to observe an object's value representation. We use `uint8_t` everywhere to see bytes, so we have to ensure that `uint8_t` is an alias to a "`byte type"`. References: http://eel.is/c++draft/basic.types http://eel.is/c++draft/basic.memobj#def:byte http://eel.is/c++draft/expr.sizeof#1 http://eel.is/c++draft/cstdint#syn