[tz] [PROPOSED] Do not assume bytes have 8 bits

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Garrett Wollman via tz said:
> POSIX since 2001 requires eight-bit bytes,

Yes, that was my fault. (I've just been reading through my records of what
I send to the austin-group list; it's fascinating in retrospect.) I
pointed out that various network functions (starting with htonl() and
friends and then going on to how send() and recv() worked on a socket)
needed a better definition to cope with systems where CHAR_BIT > 8.

Instead of adopting my suggestions (which were, I accept, complicated) it
was decided to require that CHAR_BIT was always 8.

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