I never noticed it before, but after doing some java programming and coming back to C/C++ I've noticed there isn't a 'byte' data type.Why is that? It seems wrong to use a 'char' to store data that ...

I'm ashamed to admit that as a programmer I've never worked with binary data.Anyway, now that that's out of the way...I know you can do simple conversion from 8 bit int values to byte: //Ok (max 8 ...