On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 05:13:32PM -0600, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > C does not make such a guarantee, though recent-ish POSIX does. (This > system is a windows one, thought, right?) There are DSPs that only support 32 bit, they don't have a concept of 8 bit. But I think there is various code that assumes that char is 8 bit, and I doubt you can get OpenSSL working on such a system. Kurt